Hawthorne's Quotes

Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil") — Julian Hawthorne

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season — Rob Hawthorne

Some illusions ... are the shadows of great truths. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can. — Mayer Hawthorne

I can feel every Shifter's emotions except Daniel's - the only one whose heart I long to know. — Rachel Hawthorne

And his kiss wasn't at all like his smile. It wasn't crooked or one-sided. It was quite simply ... perfect. — Rachel Hawthorne

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

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last. — Rachel Hawthorne

God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give him blood to drink! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point? — Mayer Hawthorne

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. — Mayer Hawthorne

Life's already a gamble. Don't let love be one, too. — Max Hawthorne

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. — John Irving

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Hawthorne sucks ... It's a crazy place, and I'm happy that I was the weird one that got out. — Tyler, The Creator

Those who can write, write.
Those who can't, criticize. — Max Hawthorne

I've been accused of darkness
by my inner light. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets. — Mayer Hawthorne

It's just that,well,I'm gonna pull a Brad on you."
"You're going to start totally ignoring me? — Rachel Hawthorne

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her. — Suzanne Collins

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The ever relentless — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The most powerful minds are not always the best acquainted with their own feelings. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. — Mayer Hawthorne

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world. — Mayer Hawthorne

Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hey, college-bound?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you always kick guys in the nuts when they try to kiss you?"
"Maybe you should try it sometime and find out. — Rachel Hawthorne

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

MAY AND NOVEMBER VI. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger. — Robert McCammon

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music. — Mayer Hawthorne

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Little, impalpable worlds, were those soap-bubbles, with the big world depicted, in hues bright as imagination, on the nothing of their surface. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key. — Suzanne Collins

I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What can I get you guys?" Another lie, maybe? — Rachel Hawthorne

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release ... — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

A forced smile is uglier than a frown. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not. — Rachel Hawthorne

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Herman Melville

Mick: What do you remember from when you were four?
Josef: Well it was 1603 Mick, it's reasonable to be a little hazy. — Rachel Hawthorne

[Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while. — D.H. Lawrence

Josef: Why haven't you killed them?
Mick: There's more than one suspect..
Josef: So kill them all. — Rachel Hawthorne

I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun. — Mayer Hawthorne

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age. — Max Hawthorne

Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain. — Mayer Hawthorne

We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny? — Rachel Hawthorne

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler. — Louise Fitzhugh

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are certain things money can't buy. Chief among these are manners, class, honor and integrity. Oh, and sanity. Let's not forget that one . . . — Max Hawthorne

For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's easy to win. Anybody can win. — Philip K. Dick

Caroline said, "She's terribly, terribly disruptive." "So is reality," Hawthorne said. — Philip K. Dick

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor? — Mayer Hawthorne

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,
call it which you will,
is a book ... — Nathaniel Hawthorne

...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach — Mark Hawthorne

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self. — Max Hawthorne

A writer's mind is like a teapot. The words build up in your head until you just gotta let 'em out. — Max Hawthorne

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. — Chuck Eddy

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual. — Alison Hawthorne Deming