All NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Quotes about “Death”

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
“Death should take me while I am in the mood.”
“Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.”
“Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.”
“It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.”
“Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.”
“Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.”

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