The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
-
-
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
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