“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“...you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird!” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“it is difficult to adjust our outer and inner life with perfect honesty to all!” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I should like the flowers very very much, if I didn’t keep on thinking they’d be all withered in a few days!” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“there's life there's hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“love, life and everything human seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe'. (p.309)” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective… — 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… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Only a wall divided him from those happy young contemporaries of his with whom he shared a common mental life; men who… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Despite his heterodoxy, faults, and weaknesses, Clare was a man with a conscience. Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The doctor says there are such boys springing up amongst us—boys of a sort unknown in the last generation—the outcome of new… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Her face had the usual fulness of expression which is developed by a life of solitude. Where the eyes of a multitude… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was amazing, indeed, to find how great a matter the life of the obscure dairy had become to him. And though… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“In the dusk of that evening Jude walked away from his old aunt's as if to go home. But as soon as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy, 1840 - 1928 (Lines on the loss of the “Titanic”) I In a solitude of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy and all its freedom.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life.” — 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
![“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only--finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad…” quote by Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/756/thomas-hardy-410_history_sometimes-i-feel-i-don-t-want-to-know-an_2345820.jpg)
