Thomas Hardy Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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

• 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 distant hope.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Soul, Hobbies

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.12, Thomas Hardy

• Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

  Thomas Hardy

  Soul, Sin, Judgment

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the D'urbervilles”, p.455, Reprint Services Corporation

• 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)

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