Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 215
(Original engl.: "Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 33 Pictured Windows. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf33.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne Berühmte Zitate
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 182
(Original engl.: "It is a great mistake to try to put our best thoughts into human language. When we ascend into the higher regions of emotion and spiritual enjoyment, they are only expressible by such grand hieroglyphics as these around us." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 28 The Owl Tower. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf28.html
-Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 63
(Original engl.: " It was a glimpse far backward into Arcadian life, or, further still, into the Golden Age, before mankind was burdened with sin and sorrow, and before pleasure had been darkened with those shadows that bring it into high relief, and make it happiness." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 9 The Faun and Nymph. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf09.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 85
(Original engl.: "As these busts in the block of marble," thought Miriam, "so does our individual fate exist in the limestone of time. We fancy that we carve it out; but its ultimate shape is prior to all our action." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 13 A Sculptor's Studio. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf13.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 302
(Original engl.: "At least, she might conclude that sin - which man chose instead of good - has been so beneficently handled by omniscience and omnipotence, that, whereas our dark enemy sought to destroy us by it, it has really become an instrument most effective in the education of intellect and soul." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 47 The Peasant and Contadina Sculptor's Studio. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf47.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der scharlachrote Buchstabe (orig.: The Scarlet Letter, 1850), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Paula Saatmann, Reclam Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-15-009454-2, S. 205
(Original engl.: "Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!" - The Scarlet Letter. 1850. Kapitel XV Hester and Pearl. http://www.bartleby.com/83/15.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne Zitate und Sprüche
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Zitate auf Englisch
“I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.”
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4 June 1837)
“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XV: Hester and Pearl
1836
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter
“… if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom…”
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past?… It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
Quelle: The House of the Seven Gables
"The Old Manse": The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/tom.html from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Kontext: Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: — "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
Quelle: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XI : The Arched Window
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter II: The Market-Place
“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter
“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart… converted it into a tomb.”
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Kontext: It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
“She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.”
"The Birthmark" from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Quelle: "Young Goodman Brown"
Kontext: "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. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
“All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.”
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
1838
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)