Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
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What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.
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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
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When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
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All romances end at marriage.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.
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It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.