Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Marriage, Fashion

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1972). “Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839-1863”

• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Selfish, Inspire

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.317, e-artnow

• Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Expression, Roots

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.435, e-artnow

• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Life, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.343, Library of America

• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Dark

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 11 (1851)

• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Passion, Heart

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 15 (1850)

• I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Wish

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1884). “The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne”

• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Relationship, Passion

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 15 (1850)

• I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Country, Fall

• 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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Death, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Mosses from an Old Manse (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

• 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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Fighting, Men

• Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Mother, Grief

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.106

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