Heart Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

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“It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her…

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

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Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as…

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No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do…

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What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden… It is sad that Nature will play such…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds…

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“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim…

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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets,…

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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport; because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have…

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“She perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung…

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne