Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."[, Oct. 10, 1842]””

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.””

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

“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.””

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.””

“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.””

“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.””

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!””

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!””

“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.””

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