Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Grief

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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Heartbreak, Grief, Grieving

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

Grief, Fall, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

Henry David Thoreau

Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Grief

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