Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

American - Novelist July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Inspirational, Happiness, Butterfly, You

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shadow, Time, Time Flies, Us, Over

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

Good, Communication, Words, Innocent

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, Heart, Sunshine, Romantic, World

Sunlight is painting. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunlight is painting.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, Painting, Sunlight

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man, Face, True, Wear, Without, May

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Respect, World, Place, Important, Some

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Great, Poetry, Look, Think, Nobody, Find

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, Mountains, Monuments, Earth

Life is made up of marble and mud. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Mud, Up, Marble, Made

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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good, Suicide, Person, Meet, Beyond, His

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wisdom, Courage, Fool, Self, Know, Doubt

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brother, Honesty, Dishonesty, Accuracy

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, World, Follow, Find, Never

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Heart, Self, Dark, Own, Other, Dungeon

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

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Forest, Always, Talk, Us, Happens, Must

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Love, Daily, Men, Brave, Fight

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

Life, Love, Relationship, Tree, Die

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moment, Death, Dream, Sometimes, May

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Friendship, Nature, Friend, Best, Worst

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You, Long, Get, Anything, Going, About

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

Family, Friends, Literature, Writing

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading, Writing, Damn, Easy, Hard

Moonlight is sculpture. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, Sculpture, Moonlight

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Spring, Art, Religion, Economics, Same

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, Prison, New, Project, Human

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