658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is singular, however, how long a time often passes before words embody things; and with what security two persons, who choose to avoid a certain subject, may approach its very verge, and retire without disturbing it.

مگر نه این است که بیگانگی از حق و حقیقت به صورت جنون در این جهان زمینی تظاهر می‌نماید؟ آیا دیوانگی غیر از دور ماندن از واقعیت است؟داغ ننگ - ترجمه سیمین دانشور - انتشارات نیل 1346 - ص157

No hay una sola puntada en esa letra bordada que no haya sentido en su corazón.

I have wrenched and torn an idea out of my miserable brain, or rather, the fragment of an idea, like a tooth ill-drawn and leaving the roots to torture me.

He had a winged nature; she was rather of the vegetable kind, and could hardly be kept long alive, if drawn up by the roots. Thus it happened that the relation heretofore existing between her brother and herself was changed.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

Burlacul se simte-ntotdeauna tras pe sfoara cand stie, sau banuieste, ca vreuna din femeile pe care le cunoaste s-a deconspirat singura.

The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.