Hawthorne's Quotes & Sayings
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. —
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By —
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. —
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ever relentless —
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil. —
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAY AND NOVEMBER VI. —
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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