Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Behind every citizen lies a graveyard.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

Peace is in the grave.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.