What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
-
-
Sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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 -
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE