The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
- Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
- The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
- Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
- Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
- Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.
- If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
- There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
- There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a prominent American novelist and short story writer known for his dark romanticism and exploration of moral and psychological themes.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, his Puritan ancestry and the infamous Salem witch trials influenced much of his work. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, Hawthorne published his first novel, Fanshawe, anonymously in 1828, though it gained little attention.
He gained recognition with the publication of Twice-Told Tales in 1837, a collection of short stories. Hawthorne’s major works include The Scarlet Letter (1850), a profound commentary on sin, guilt, and redemption in Puritan society, and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), which explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement.
Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in 1842, and they had three children. His work remains influential in American literature, noted for its symbolic depth and exploration of human nature. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
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