“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me!” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will live on a long time after nutriment has ceased” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. — 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
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Yet Clare's love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability. With these natures, corporeal presence is sometimes less appealing than… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Don't love too blindly: blindly you will love if you love at all, but a little care is still possible to a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once… — 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
“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Oh, it is true enough. I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb (an old country saying, not… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“but she remained more or less and ideal character, about whose form he began to weave curious and fantastic day-dreams.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed.” — 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
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least… — 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
