Young Goodman Brown Quotes

“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.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“With Heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the Devil!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“evil is the nature of mankind.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“El Maligno en persona es menos espantoso que cuando rabia en el pecho de un hombre.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“El mundo entero es una mácula de culpa, una descomunal mancha de sangre.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“There is no good on earth; and sun is but a name. Come devil; for to thee is this world given.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“The road grew wilder and drearier and more faintly traced, and vanished at length, leaving him in the heart of the dark wilderness, still rushing onward with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“Young Goodman Brown came forth, at sunset, into the street of Salem village, but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.

And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grand-children, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tomb-stone; for his dying hour was gloom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“the voices, talking so strangely in the empty air, passed on through the forest, where no church had ever been gathered or solitary Christian prayed.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“It would break her dear little heart; and I'd rather break my own!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

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― Thomas E. Connolly, Young Goodman Brown