Thomas Hardy Quotes

“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:love passion eyes

“she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:love passion

“Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:love change

“She was at the modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called 'having a fancy for.' It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:love passion

“Many besides Angel have learnt 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.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:life experience

“She's brim full of poetry—actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She LIVES what paper-poets only write...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:life writing poetry

“If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:truth

“Sanguine by nature, Troy had a power of eluding grief by simply adjourning it. He could put off the consideration of any particular spectre till the matter had become old and softened by time.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:time grief

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:women men feelings

“some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:women

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