--- title: "14 Should Quotes By Nathaniel Hawthorne" description: "14 Should quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Plus more from Nathaniel Hawthorne and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ff/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_death_death-should-take-me-while-i-am-in-the-m_935618.jpg" --- > [Death should take me while I am in the mood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/death-should-take-me-while-i-am-in-the-mood/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ff/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_death_death-should-take-me-while-i-am-in-the-m_935618.jpg) > [My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/my-fortune-somewhat-resembled-that-of-a-person-who-should-entertain/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_committing-suicide_my-fortune-somewhat-resembled-that-of-a_1522718.jpg) > [She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/she-wanted-what-some-people-want-throughout-life-a-grief-that-should/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd2/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_capable_she-wanted-what-some-people-want-through_2497079.jpg) > [What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-is-there-so-ponderous-in-evil-that-a-thumb-s-bigness-of-it/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_evil_what-is-there-so-ponderous-in-evil-that_2472495.jpg) > [Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/would-time-but-await-the-close-of-our-favorite-follies-we-should-all/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_await_would-time-but-await-the-close-of-our-fa_2548668.jpg) > [In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/in-our-nature-however-there-is-a-provision-alike-marvelous-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_intensity_in-our-nature-however-there-is-a-provisi_1293102.jpg) > [It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/it-is-a-little-remarkable-that-though-disinclined-to-talk-overmuch-of/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_affair_it-is-a-little-remarkable-that-though-di_442110.jpg) > [As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/as-the-architecture-of-a-country-always-follows-the-earliest/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64d/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_architecture_as-the-architecture-of-a-country-always_53924.jpg) > [Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/never-was-there-a-dingier-uglier-less-picturesque-city-than-london-it/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82b/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_bricks_never-was-there-a-dingier-uglier-less-pi_571150.jpg) > [There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-is-so-much-wretchedness-in-the-world-that-we-may-safely-take/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_assistance_there-is-so-much-wretchedness-in-the-wor_2312208.jpg) > [If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-we-take-the-freedom-to-put-a-friend-under-our-microscope-we/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49d/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_aspect_if-we-take-the-freedom-to-put-a-friend-u_89759.jpg) > [Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/technologies-of-easy-travel-give-us-wings-they-annihilate-the-toil-2/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad2/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_beautiful_technologies-of-easy-travel-give-us-wing_1265865.jpg) > [It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/it-is-not-strange-that-that-early-love-of-the-heart-should-come-back/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c11/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_beautiful_it-is-not-strange-that-that-early-love-o_787760.jpg) > [America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/america-is-now-wholly-given-over-to-a-d-d-mob-of-scribbling-women-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_america_america-is-now-wholly-given-over-to-a-d_721026.jpg) ## Other authors on Should ## More by Nathaniel Hawthorne > [“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-was-something-of-the-women-molded-into-the-great-stalwart-frame/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-trees-reflected-in-the-river-they-are-unconscious-of-a-spiritual/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-dismaying-thing-about-the-classic-totalitarian-mind-is-that-any/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/my-heart-was-a-habitation-large-enough-for-many-guests-but-lonely-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/wherever-there-is-a-heart-and-an-intellect-the-diseases-of-the/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-founders-of-a-new-colony-whatever-utopia-of-human-virtue-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [Generosity is the flower of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/generosity-is-the-flower-of-justice/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/he-seemed-to-be-in-quest-for-mental-food-not-heart-sustenance/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/unfathomable-to-mere-mortals-is-the-lore-of-fiends/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/possibly-he-was-in-a-state-of-second-growth-and-recovery-and-was/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-wonder-then-should-we-be-frightened-by-the-aspect-of-a-monster/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/as-the-architecture-of-a-country-always-follows-the-earliest/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-we-call-real-estate-the-solid-ground-to-build-a-house-on-is-the/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“The bookworm of great libraries.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-bookworm-of-great-libraries/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-are-many-things-in-this-world-that-a-child-must-not-ask-about/) [Nathaniel 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