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
“He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life.” — 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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till… — 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 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
“Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.” — 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
“He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of… — 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
“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
“He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose… — 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
I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great… — 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
“...you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird!” — 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
“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
