Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Self Esteem #Greatness #Destiny

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

#Literature #Forests

“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

#Depression #Being Yourself #Men

“...happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Release #Found

“What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Marriage #Fashion #Love One Another

“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

#Honesty #Integrity #Writing

“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Hero #Heroism #World

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Reading #Writing #Easy

“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 #Life #Motivational

“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

#Men #Light #Shadow

“I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Taken #Garden #Sight

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Dream #Book #Sleep

“Moonlight is sculpture.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Sunset #Sunrise #Sculpture

“When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Sky #Clouds #Earth

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

#Art #Spring #Roots

“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

#Thinking #Artist #Perspective

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

#Time #Shadow #Eternity

“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Autumn #Sunshine #Air

“The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Law Of Attraction #Mind #Attraction

“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

#Friendship #Writing #Family And Friends

“I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Love #Heart #Wish

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

#Life #Mud #Made

“In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence...”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Heart #Light #Dungeons

“Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Dream #Heart #Evil

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Love #Heart #Dark

“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

#Real #House #Guilt

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Men #Appreciate #Intellectual

“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 #Life #Heart

“it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Hate #Love Is #Hatred

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Nature #Children #Roots