Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Fear

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

• When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Fear, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.69, Xist Publishing

• People die of fright and live of confidence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, People, Fright

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

• In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Expression

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

• Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Anticipation, Mental Health

  See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Wellington 3

• We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Men, Righteous Man

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press

• But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Hate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1140, Delphi Classics

• Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving Up, Fear, War

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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