Spirit Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

14 Spirit quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

All Spirit quotes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s page

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fourteen reflections on spirit delve into the moral complexities and inner turmoil that define the human experience. His prose, tinged with a subtle darkness, invites readers to confront the shadows within.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

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

Image

“There is no decay. Each human soul is the first created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

“And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

Other authors on Spirit

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…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Image

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Image

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Image

“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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