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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Soul

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The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

Henry David Thoreau
Soul, Subtraction, Grows

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

Henry David Thoreau
Soul, Body, Hunger And Thirst
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.90

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Art, Soul
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Rome, Soul
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.32, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Henry David Thoreau
Soul, World, Lost

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

Henry David Thoreau
Soul, Hay, Stacking
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.89, Xist Publishing

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Hopeful, Soul
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.

Henry David Thoreau
Eye, Animal, Soul

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Henry David Thoreau
Learning, Light, Soul
Henry David Thoreau, Robert Bly (1992). “The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau”, Perennial

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau
Sympathy, War, Soul
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, David M Gross

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Soul, Church
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

Henry David Thoreau
Freedom, Book, Soul
Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Henry David Thoreau
Garden, Soul, Religion
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.169, Xist Publishing

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Garden, Order, Soul

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Henry David Thoreau
Soul, May, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, House, Soul
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.230, Penguin

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Henry David Thoreau
Wind, Sea, Soul
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

Henry David Thoreau
Character, Soul, Shadow
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.373

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Light, Soul
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2067, Delphi Classics

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Henry David Thoreau
Home, Soul, Pushing

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