“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking", she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“At night, when human discords and harmonies are hushed, . . . there is nothing to moderate the blow with which the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
