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
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
Quelle: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. II : The Little Shop-Window
p, 125
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
Introduction: The Custom-House
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
“God will give him blood to drink!”
Quelle: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. I : The Old Pyncheon Family
William Cowper Prime in The Old House by the River (1853); first misattributed to Hawthorne in Notable Thoughts about Women: A Literary Mosaic (1882) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 239
Misattributed
January 1854
Notebooks, The English Notebooks (1853 - 1858)
“It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.”
The Blithedale Romance, Chapter 28
Quelle: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XX : The Flower of Eden
The Snow-Image, and Other Tales, Preface http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/sipf.html (1852)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
Introduction: The Custom-House
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
p, 125
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”
Quelle: The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter IV: The Spectre of the Catacomb
“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
John Jay Chapman, Practical Agitation (1900), ch.7
Misattributed
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter I: The Prison Door
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
1836
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIII: A Flood of Sunshine
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835) from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)