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Thomas Hardy Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tagged: Woman, strength, Courage, Weak
“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”
— Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, destiny in love, Love, love life, Single, Single Life, Life
“She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!”
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Tagged: Love, breakup, Heartbreak, pain in love
“I cannot tell you. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language that is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Gender Wars, emotions, Love Language
“Yet it was in that vale that her sorrow had taken shape, and she did not love it as formerly. Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tagged: Inner Landscape, Internal Landscape, The External vs. Internal, Mindscape, Trauma, Memory, beauty, Beauty in Symbolism, Symbolism, Sorrow, Pain, Grief, Loss of Innocence
“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tagged: imperfect, humanity, Sweetness
“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, Jude the Obscure
Tagged: Marriage, Discomfort, Matrimony, Pleasure
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
— Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
Tagged: Woman, Man, Vision
“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
Tagged: Love, Capacity of Love, Coldness
“I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.”
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tagged: Belief, Questions, strength
“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
— Thomas Hardy, Far From The Maddening Crowd
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tagged: Existence, Experience, Passion, Thought
“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…”
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Tagged: Living, Life, Death
“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, Jude the Obscure
Tagged: Love, Unrequitted, Cruelty, Conscience
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tagged: heart, Troubles, Courage
“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Tagged: Depression, Alone, Truth
“We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.”
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
Tagged: Rays, Rejection, Colors, Goodwill
“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Tagged: Dreams, Big Dreams
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