The Return of the Native Quotes

“A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:lovepassion

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

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:lovepassion

“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:lovepassion

“women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:women

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:woman

“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:fate