In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence...
Nathaniel HawthorneAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: July 4, 1804
- Died: May 19, 1864
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People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances without own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Campbell