“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.”
More from Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit,…”
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
“She was like a ghost that haunts a familiar fireside, unable to make itself seen or felt,…”
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”