Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Marriage

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

• In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Marriage, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.10, Jazzybee Verlag

• It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Nature, Creativity

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Drunk, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

• If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Giving, Lust

• Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Couple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1759, Delphi Classics

• If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Taken, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

• In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Sight, Mystery

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1759, Delphi Classics

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