Thoreau Transcendentalism Quotes & Sayings

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus."
A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back."
Oh man, what an opening that was. — Richelle Mead

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use. — Henry David Thoreau

You've got a wonderful way with words, disgusting but wonderful. — L. H. Cosway

I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out. — Chris O'Donnell

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music. — Jim Foglesong

Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary. — Paul Bowles

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle. — Henry David Thoreau

Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards) — Terry Pratchett

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. — Henry David Thoreau

From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Is there anything more enlightened, more intelligent, more intellectual than laughter? — Marty Rubin

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it. — O. Henry

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ). — Henry David Thoreau

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space. — Henry David Thoreau

I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action. — Deval Patrick

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. — Henry David Thoreau

I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life. — Shia Labeouf

Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how. — Shannon L. Alder

What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? — Henry David Thoreau

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,
these are some of our astronomers. — Henry David Thoreau

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act. — Dennis Ross

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself. — Eva Green

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone. — Henry David Thoreau