The Scarlet Letter Quotes

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

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:love hate

“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:love heart world

“Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:death

“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.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:truth appearance

“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:truth

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,—it is impalpable,—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:truth universe

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous 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, The Scarlet Letter

topic:time pain present

“A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way. If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:women heart

“Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:women pleasure

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

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:self appearance

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