Life Quotes by Thomas Hardy

“...you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird!”

— Thomas Hardy

“Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.”

— Thomas Hardy

“But time is short, and science is infinite...”

— Thomas Hardy

“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.”

— Thomas Hardy

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

— Thomas Hardy

“They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.”

— Thomas Hardy

“it is difficult to adjust our outer and inner life with perfect honesty to all!”

— Thomas Hardy

“A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.”

— Thomas Hardy

“there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of…

— Thomas Hardy

“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and…

— Thomas Hardy

“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as…

— Thomas Hardy

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

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me…

— Thomas Hardy

“But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out…

— Thomas Hardy

“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”

— Thomas Hardy

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

“She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache…

— Thomas Hardy

Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as…

— Thomas Hardy

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and…

— Thomas Hardy

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do…

— Thomas Hardy

“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which…

— Thomas Hardy

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of…

— Thomas Hardy

“But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt…

— Thomas Hardy

“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

“It was amazing, indeed, to find how great a matter the life of the obscure dairy had become to him. And though…

— Thomas Hardy

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

“Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows,…

— Thomas Hardy

“Despite his heterodoxy, faults, and weaknesses, Clare was a man with a conscience. Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and…

— Thomas Hardy

“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

“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

“Her face had the usual fulness of expression which is developed by a life of solitude. Where the eyes of a multitude…

— Thomas Hardy

“Children begin with detail, and learn up to the general; they begin with the contiguous, and gradually comprehend the universal. The boy…

— Thomas Hardy

“I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less…

— Thomas Hardy

“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

“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through…

— Thomas Hardy

“The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy, 1840 - 1928 (Lines on the loss of the “Titanic”) I In a solitude of…

— Thomas Hardy

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

— Thomas Hardy

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

— Thomas Hardy

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

— Thomas Hardy

“He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life.”

— Thomas Hardy