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Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death, Mood, Should
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1858). “The Blithedale romance: By Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.39

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love, Death, Heart
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Mosses from an Old Manse (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death, Suicide, Dream
Journal, 25 Oct. 1836

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death, Angel, Knowing

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death, Gold, Facts
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.367, Applewood Books

It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beautiful, Death, Memories

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death, Real, Towns

It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death, Appreciation, Character
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.546, e-artnow

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death, Events, World
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.546, e-artnow

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