I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more

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.

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

Either this man is dead
or my watch has stopped.

Either this man is dead
or my watch has stopped.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught read more

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?

Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.

Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.