Author: Henry David Thoreau
Cited by
- Robert L. Anderson (1)
- IN: Dreamland (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
FROM: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, (1849), Book, US
- Jodi Picoult (2)
- IN: Vanishing Acts (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: “What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times. ”
FROM: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, (1849), Book, US
- IN: Nineteen Minutes (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.
FROM: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, (1849), Book, US
- Stephen R. Covey (1)
- IN: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) Non-Fiction, Psychology, American
EPIGRAPH: I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Donald E. Morse (1)
- IN: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining being and American. (2003) Criticism and interpretation, science fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: 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.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Robert Phillips (1)
- IN: Spinach Days (2000) Poetry, American
EPIGRAPH: I should not talk so much about myself / If there were anybody else whom I knew so well
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Norman Mailer (1)
- IN: The Spooky Art (2003) Reference, American
EPIGRAPH: I was never so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
FROM: Journals, (1961), Journal, US
- Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston (1)
- IN: Stolen (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, --
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Jessie Humphries (1)
- IN: Killing Ruby Rose (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Truths and roses have thorns about them.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Emily Pohl-Weary (1)
- IN: Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: In wildness is the preservation of the world.
FROM: Walking, (1851), Essay, US
- Melissa de la / Johnston, Michael Cruz (1)
- IN: Stolen (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Men say they know many things; / But lo! they have taken wings, — / The arts and sciences, / And a thousand appliances; / The wind that blows / Is all that any body knows.
FROM: Men Say They Know Many Things, (1854), Poem, US
- Pico Iyer (1)
- IN: The Man Within My Head (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: What means the fact -- which is so common -- so universal -- that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?
FROM: NULL, (1843), NULL, US
- H. A. Swain (1)
- IN: Hungry (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.
FROM: Wild Apples, (1862), Article, US
- Joseph Monninger (1)
- IN: Wish (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
FROM: NULL, (1839), Journal, US
- Maia Chance (1)
- IN: Cinderella Six Feet Under (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life... would be like a fairy tale.
FROM: NULL, (1854), NULL, US
- Richard Doetsch (4)
- IN: Half Past Dawn (2011) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- IN: The 13th Hour (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- IN: Half-Past Dawn: A Thriller (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- William Bernhardt (1)
- IN: Dark Justice (1999) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The question is not what you look at, but what you see.T
FROM: Henry David Thoreau, Journals, November 16, 1830, (1830), NULL, US
- Reed Coleman (1)
- IN: Gun Church (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Rather than love, than fame, give me truth.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Marcia Talley (1)
- IN: In Death's Shadow (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners… and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.
FROM: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Wednesday (1849), (1849), Book, US
- Erica Ferencik (1)
- IN: The River At Night (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place of heathenism and superstitious rites, to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we.
FROM: The Maine Woods, (1864), Book, US
- Kurt Vonnegut (2)
- IN: Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Bewar eof all enterprises that require new clothes.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- IN: Wampeters, Foma & Granfaloons (1965) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I have traveled extensively in Concord.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Stephen King (1)
- IN: Needful Things (1991) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Laleh Khadivi (1)
- IN: The Walking (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I know not how significant it is, or how far it is an evidence of singularity, that an individual should thus consent in his pettiest walk with the general movement of the race; but I know that somehting akin to the migratory instinct of bird and quadrupeds... affects both nations and individuals, either perenially or from time to time.
FROM: Walking, (1862), Book, NULL
- Lorrie Moore (2)
- IN: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I am thankful that this pond was made deep and pure for a symbol.
FROM: Walden, (1854), NULL, US
- IN: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I am thankful that this pond was made deep and pure for a symbol.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Lisa Lutz (1)
- IN: How to Start a Fire (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All good things are wild and free.
FROM: Walking, (1862), Speech, US
- Garcia Kami (1)
- IN: Unbreakable (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: None of the imaginary worlds I create compare to the real one I share with you.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Essay, US
- Dana Spiotta (1)
- IN: Innocents and Others (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking at what is to be seen?
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- James Patterson (1)
- IN: Maximum Ride (None) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
FROM: NULL, (1861), [NA], US
- Marisa Silver (1)
- IN: Mary Coin (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Peter Rock (1)
- IN: My Abandonment (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woords, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Don Robertson (1)
- IN: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread (1965) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Tom Clancy (1)
- IN: Red Rabbit (2002) Fiction, Techno-thriller, American
EPIGRAPH: Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Nora Roberts (1)
- IN: Tribute (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The past cannot be presented;
we cannot know what we are not.
But one veil hangs over the past,
present, and future.
FROM: Dark Ages, (1843), Essay, US
- John Pipkin (1)
- IN: Woods Burner (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I once set fire to the woods ...
It was a glorious spectacle, and I was the only one there to enjoy it.
FROM: The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, (1850), Book, US
- Chris Ryan (1)
- IN: Firefight (2008) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I do not wish to kill or be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable.'
FROM: A Plea for Captain John Brown, (1860), Essay, US
- Alice Monroe (1)
- IN: The Beach House (2002) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Consider the turtle. Perchance you have worried, despaired of the world, meditated the end of life, and all things seem rushing to destruction; but nature has steadily and serenely advanced with the turtle's pace. The young turtle spends its infancy within its shell. It gets experience and learns the way of the world through that wall. While it rests warily on the edge of its hole, rash schemes are undertaken by men and fail. French empires rise or fall, but the turtle is developed only so fast. What's a summer? Time for a turtle's egg to hatch. So is the turtle developed, fitted to endure, for he outlives twenty French dynasties. One turtle knows several Napoleans. They have no worries, have no cares, yet has not the great world existed for them as much as for you?
FROM: Journal, (1856), Book, US
- Don Pendleton (1)
- IN: Tennessee Smash (1978) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Things do not change, we change.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Karen White (1)
- IN: Flight Patterns (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
FROM: Ned Bloodworth's Beekeeper's Journal, (2016), Fictional, US
- Smith Henderson (2)
- IN: Fourth of July Creek (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If I knew for a certain'ty that a man was coming to my house with the coscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- IN: Fourth of July Greek (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If I knew for a certain'ty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
- Paul Doiron (1)
- IN: Massacre Pond (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Nature looked sternly upon me on account of the murder of the moose.
FROM: The Maine Woods, (1864), Book, US
- Alice Hoffman (1)
- IN: The Rules of Magic (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There is no remedy for love but to love more.
FROM: NULL, (1839), Journal, US
- Emily Jeanne Miller (1)
- IN: The NEWS from the END of the WORLD (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Turning our backs on the outward world, we thus looked through the knot-hole into the Humane house, into the very bowels of mercy; and for bread we found a stone.
FROM: Cape Cod, (1865), Book, US
- Siobhan Vivian (1)
- IN: The List (2012) Fiction, Young Adult, American
EPIGRAPH: The perception of beauty is a moral test.
FROM: NULL, (1850), NULL, US
- T. C. Boyle (2)
- IN: DropCity (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Think of our life in nature, -- daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, -- rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
FROM: "Ktaadn", (1848), NULL, US
- IN: Wild Child (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In Wildness is the preservation of the world.
FROM: "Walking", (1862), Book, US
- Phillipi Ryan, Hank (1)
- IN: What You See (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It’s not what you look at the matters. It’s what you see.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Steve Watkins (1)
- IN: what comes after (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Bernard Malamud (1)
- IN: Dubin's Lives (1977) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US