Nathaniel Hawthorne híres idézetei
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Idézetek angolul
“I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.”
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4 June 1837)
“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XV: Hester and Pearl
1836
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter
“… if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom…”
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past?… It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
Forrás: The House of the Seven Gables
"The Old Manse": The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/tom.html from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Kontextus: Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: — "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
Forrás: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XI : The Arched Window
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter II: The Market-Place
“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter
“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart… converted it into a tomb.”
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Kontextus: It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
“She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.”
"The Birthmark" from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Forrás: "Young Goodman Brown"
Kontextus: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
“All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.”
Forrás: The Scarlet Letter
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
1838
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)