Thomas Hardy Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Heaven, Religion

• You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

  Thomas Hardy

  Thinking, Heaven, Black

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.374, Thomas Hardy

• You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Heaven, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.179, 谷月社

• To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “The Return of the Native”, p.352, Broadview Press

• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Heaven, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Return of the Native: Easyread Edition”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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