All NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Quotes about “Heart”

“I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.”
“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.”
“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!”
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.”
“I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.”
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”
“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.”
“What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.”
“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachersâ€”stern and wild onesâ€”and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.”
“In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.”

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