None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is transient and constantly changing, much like the scenes of a painting that are temporary yet beautiful.
This quote by Henry David Thoreau suggests that each day presents us with a unique and fleeting experience, metaphorically illustrated as a picture painted by a Great Artist. It emphasizes the beauty and impermanence of life, reminding us that moments are crafted and showcased in different lights, ultimately fading away, yet leaving behind an afterglow that lingers in our memories.
Themes
LifeChangeImpermanenceBeautyExperience
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about embracing change, one might say, 'As Thoreau reminds us, every day a new picture is painted, urging us to appreciate the beauty of the moment.'
More from Henry David Thoreau
All quotes βThrough want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Henry David ThoreauRead
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
Henry David ThoreauRead
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
Henry David ThoreauRead
That grand old poem called Winter
Henry David ThoreauRead
Similar quotes
There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.
John OwenRead
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas JeffersonRead
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
Johnny CashRead
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
Jose SaramagoRead
Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I'm so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.
Jesse WilliamsRead
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
Eugene IonescoRead