“For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream : it may be so at the moment after death.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
