Thomas Hardy Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

  Thomas Hardy

  People, Goes On, May

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 1 (1896)

• It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

  Thomas Hardy

  Pain, Imagination, Pleasure

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.69, e-artnow

• 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

• 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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