“…such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.” “…if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom…” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 5, Pages 53-54 “In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it… She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.” “Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.” “But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.” The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.” “To-morrow would bring its own trial with it so would the next day, and so would the next each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 5, “She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 2, Pages 34, 35 “In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous 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, Chapter 2, “It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.” “But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals who neither love nor understand him” Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.” “But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 1, “It is a good lesson – though it may often be a hard one – for a man… to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 1, Pages 14, 15 “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.” ~Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 1, Pages 13,14 “All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.” The Scarlet Letter Quotes With Page Numbers Use these The Scarlet Letter Quotes With Page Numbers to complete your work.įind the quotations you need without having to read the whole book. Need to read or write about The Scarlet Letter?
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