Henry David Thoreau Quotations: Love
Our life without love is coke and ashes.—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Perhaps an instinct survives through the intensest actual love, which prevents entire abandonment and devotion, and makes the most ardent lover a little reserved. It is the anticipation of change.—Thoreau to H.G.O. Blake, 23 September 1852
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.—Walden
The Deity would be reverenced, not feared.—Early Essays and Miscellanies
The great and solitary heart will love alone, without the knowledge of its object. It cannot have society in its love. It will expend its love as the cloud drops rain upon the fields over which [it] floats.—Journal, 15 March 1842
The heart is forever inexperienced.—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The light of the sun is but the shadow of love.—"Paradise (to be) Regained"
The love is faint-hearted and short-lived that is contented with the past history of its object. It does not prepare the soil to bear new crops lustier than the old.—Journal, 14 March 1842
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?—Journal, 6 May 1852
The obstacles which the heart meets with are like granite blocks which one alone can not move.—Journal, 27 October 1851
