Thomas Hardy Quotes - Page 4

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• There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

  Thomas Hardy

  Together, Events, Lines

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1161, Delphi Classics

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• O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

  Thomas Hardy

  Pieces, Pity, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.466, Thomas Hardy

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• To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

  Thomas Hardy

  Loneliness, Desire Love, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2015). “The Return of the Native”, p.68, Xist Publishing

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• George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dog, Taken, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.27, 谷月社

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• Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

  Thomas Hardy

  Kings, Dramatic Life, Life Is

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• It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Rays, Sun

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.81, Xist Publishing

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• 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

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• It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

  Thomas Hardy

  Cutting, People, Looks

  Far from the Madding Crowd ch. 5 (1874)

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• Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Thinking, Apples

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

  Thomas Hardy

  Husband, Men, Wife

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.127, e-artnow

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• Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sex, Men, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Jude the Obscure: Easyread Edition”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sky, Flux, Rhythm

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.328, 谷月社

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• My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

  Thomas Hardy

  Heart, Wicked, Spite

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• You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

  Thomas Hardy

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure (Diversion Classics)”, p.285, Diversion Books

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• It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Matter, Spinning

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.76, Thomas Hardy

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• Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

  Thomas Hardy

  Knowing, Sometimes, Shrinks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.236, 谷月社

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• Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

  Thomas Hardy

  Crush, Errors, Wish

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

  Thomas Hardy

  Practice, Principles, Constitution

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

  Thomas Hardy

  Moral, Argument, Poet

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Hand Of Ethelberta”, p.26, Thomas Hardy

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• She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

  Thomas Hardy

  Passion, Hands, And Love

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Indulge In, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

  Thomas Hardy

  Thinking, Alive, Serious

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.151, Thomas Hardy

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• We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

  Thomas Hardy

  Communion, Ought

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.307, e-artnow

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• It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Sweet, Eye

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.71, 谷月社

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