Love Quotes by Thomas Hardy

“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Tell him everything; it is best. He will forgive you.”

— Thomas Hardy

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

— Thomas Hardy

“Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.”

— Thomas Hardy

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

— Thomas Hardy

“Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity”

— Thomas Hardy

“I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.”

— Thomas Hardy

I forgot the defective can be more than the whole

— Thomas Hardy

“Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed.”

— Thomas Hardy

“but she remained more or less and ideal character, about whose form he began to weave curious and fantastic day-dreams.”

— Thomas Hardy

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

— 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

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

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in…

— Thomas Hardy

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you…

— Thomas Hardy

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they…

— Thomas Hardy

“Don't love too blindly: blindly you will love if you love at all, but a little care is still possible to a…

— Thomas Hardy

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of…

— Thomas Hardy

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be,…

— Thomas Hardy

“Yet Clare's love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability. With these natures, corporeal presence is sometimes less appealing than…

— Thomas Hardy

“There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his…

— Thomas Hardy

“Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by…

— Thomas Hardy

“The man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at…

— Thomas Hardy

“For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once…

— 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

“As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have…

— Thomas Hardy

“...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

“It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be…

— Thomas Hardy

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes,…

— Thomas Hardy

“There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could…

— Thomas Hardy

“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that…

— Thomas Hardy

“How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real…

— Thomas Hardy

“Oh, it is true enough. I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb (an old country saying, not…

— Thomas Hardy

“If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.”

— Thomas Hardy

“What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me!”

— Thomas Hardy

“Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will live on a long time after nutriment has ceased”

— Thomas Hardy

“Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.”

— Thomas Hardy

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame!…

— Thomas Hardy

Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place,…

— Thomas Hardy