Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s… — 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
“Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there, the most… — 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
You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — 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
“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
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
“At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Nature does not often say 'See?' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Rural solitude, which provides ample themes for the intellect and sweet occupations innumerable for the minor sentiments, often denies a ready object… — 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
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
“There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Yes. I—I can't help liking her—just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing, some… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their plumage dabbled with blood... some feebly twitching a wing, some staring up at the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled 'like the laughter of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though… — 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
![“[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and serpentine courses among the men who had partaken too freely; some of the more careless women were also wandering in their gait. . . . Yet…” quote by Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9a9/thomas-hardy-410_alcohol_she-soon-perceived-that-as-she-walked-in_2214235.jpg)
