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List of Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 298 inspiring quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

About Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Born: July 4, 1804
  • Died: May 19, 1864
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.
    Heart Sadness Mind
    We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.
    People Might Matter
    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.
    Inspirational Love Hate Anger
    It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to death, if we give the matter the right word! ... we read in dead men's books! we laugh at dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos! . . . whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a dead man's icy hand obstructs us!
    Book Men Hands
    My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and i need no other. there is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.
    Heart Wife Mind
    Not yet hardened, many young die good.
    Young Hardened Dies
    See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? then recognize your shame.
    Heart Eye Touching
    There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.
    Children World This World
    In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
    Country Republican Wave
    What, in the name of common-sense, had i to do with any better society than i had always lived in?
    Names Common Sense Common
    Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it eve, venus, a nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.
    Apology Thinking Names
    I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.
    Office Political Tenure
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