Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Death

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Motivational, Death, Greatness

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Death

Walden ch. 2 (1854)

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Henry David Thoreau

Beautiful, Death, Rip

Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Death, Fate, Bereavement

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2009, Delphi Classics

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Henry David Thoreau

Death, Dying, World

Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.20, Courier Corporation

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Henry David Thoreau

Funny, Life, Death

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

Henry David Thoreau

Death, Summer, Lying

"The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".