Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Impulse

Quotes about: Impulse

• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 20 (1851)

• This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  People, Progress, Ease

• He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fear, Cowardice, Driven

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.168

• It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Taken, Littles

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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