Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Sadness

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Men, Despair

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

• If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sad, Disease

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Roots, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.120

• Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sadness, Joy

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

• Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sadness, Men, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

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