All Thomas Hardy Quotes
- I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else. Anywhere
- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically… Another Instance
- It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, Compensate
- Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which… Always Remained
- So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky. Alternate
- That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through… Always Thinking
- Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man… Agonized
- You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages. Advantage
- --the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any… Any
- You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you. Concede
- The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours… Adults
- He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on… Able
- Always wanting another man than your own. Always Wanting
- I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate… Dead
- you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness. Absolutely
- We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more. Communion
- 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! You are, upon… Burn
- But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small. Dream
- All romances end at marriage. All
- So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and… Affection