9 Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes on Life

Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes on life

7. I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.

9. Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

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

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

23. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.

28. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

58. Life is made up of marble and mud.

62. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

66. All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.