Mind Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had…

— 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…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Clifford, except for Phoebe's more active instigation, would ordinarily have yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne