Henry David Thoreau Quotes

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

True individuality can be lonely.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.