Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Life

• Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Life

• Death should take me while I am in the mood.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Death, Humor

• Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Inspirational

• What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Marriage

• Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind

• It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Passion, Hate, Philosophy

• It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hatred, Forgiveness

• The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought

• I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and all you get is this little ribbon. That’s not for me.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

• But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passion

• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends

• Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Affection

• A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Dream

• You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (64)

Birth:	4th July, 1804
Death:	19th May, 1864
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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