Thomas Hardy Quotes

“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:beauty

“They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:beauty stars

“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:pain nature grief

“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:reason passion judgement

“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:change

“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.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:change

“Don't think of what's past! . . . I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:future past present

“Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:reading learning

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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