Thomas Hardy Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

  Thomas Hardy

  Silence, Soul, Feelings

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.80, 谷月社

• That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

  Thomas Hardy

  Dog, Heart, Loss

  Thomas Hardy (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Dover Publications

• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Feelings, Language

  'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1874) ch. 81

• They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

  Thomas Hardy

  Expression, Feelings, Phrases

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.378, e-artnow

• He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

  Thomas Hardy

  Feelings, Language, Silent

  "Far from the Madding Crowd". Book by Thomas Hardy, 1874.

• Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stress, Feelings, Lines

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.130, Xist Publishing

• 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 by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 3 (1896)

• This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strong, Sex, Passion

  Thomas Hardy (1874). “Far From the Madding Crowd”, p.467, Henry Holt

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