“love, life and everything human seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe'. (p.309)” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!… Her ineffable charm keeps… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
