{"author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne","total_quotes":130,"quotes":[{"text":"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["autumn","nature","sunshine"],"id":3142,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["death","depression","sorrow"],"id":15845,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"Be it sin or no, I hate the man!","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["sin"],"id":19500,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["humorous"],"id":24127,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["evil"],"id":24635,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["man","moral","care "],"id":35788,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"Happiness in this world  when it comes  comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit  and it leads us on 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.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["happiness"],"id":47586,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["devil","human","sin"],"id":49144,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["chaos","darkness","night","wind"],"id":55443,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"Moonlight is sculpture.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["sculpture","moonlight "],"id":57930,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":130,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}