Dream Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Thou are my only reality-- all other people are but shadows to me: all events and actions, in which thou dost not…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“How often is it the case that, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne