Top 45 Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes (HAPPINESS)

Top 10 Most Famous Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes (BEST)

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release. — **Happiness** is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the **courage** to release.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. — **Happiness** is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. — A single **dream** is more powerful than a thousand realities.

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. — 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.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

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

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us. — No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. **Times** change, and people change; and if our hearts do not **change** as readily, so much the worse for us.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. — **Time** flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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.

4 Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes on Human Nature

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

9 Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Life

“It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

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

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

10 Wise Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes That Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“It is a good lesson – though it may often be a hard one – for a man… to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. — We men of **study**, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We **dream** in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. — A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his **wisdom**.

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne