Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864
Birthday: July 4
Death: May 19
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!
topic: Book, Men, Hands, Gone Time
