Thomas Hardy Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• 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

• It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.

  Thomas Hardy

  Powerful, Spring, Moving

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.119, e-artnow

• That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Silence, Wonderful

  1872 Under the Greenwood Tree, ch.14.

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