“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” — 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 is difficult to adjust our outer and inner life with perfect honesty to all!” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — 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
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
“On older trees still than these huge lobes of fungi grew like lungs. Here, as everywhere, the Unfulfilled Intention, which makes life… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part 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
“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
“He began to see that the town life was a book of humanity infinitely more palpitating, varied, and compendious than the gown… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from… — 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
“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
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Children begin with detail, and learn up to the general; they begin with the contiguous, and gradually comprehend the universal. The boy… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
