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Quotes About Reflection

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.
~ Henri Cazalis
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When a man dies he kicks the dust.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
~ Henry David Thoreau
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
~ Henry David Thoreau
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
~ Henry David Thoreau