89 result(s) for Thomas Hardy Quotes.
"Wealth is a temporary good, as fame is: it must not be made the criterion."
"The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay in what passed within."
"That man's silence is wonderful to listen to."
"Some folks want their luck buttered."
"Misery to misery, never to happiness, that's the fate of the woman."
"Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them, as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable."
"To dwell on a past that cannot be relived or changed is to invite the suffering that comes from fruitless remorse."
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"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
"You are every atom to me, my love."
"That day she was pale and that day she was fair, and the day was the queen of the year."
"A man who knew what it was to be loved would never be insolent."
"I do like the heat of the sun, said Trinity, but I don't like the sun itself."
"Maybe she wasn't able to resist the temptation of living better through fiction."
"The naked personality in the flesh comes to us unsought and unannounced."
"To find beauty in sadness is to make your own happiness."
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language chiefly made by men to express theirs."
"A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."
"Time is the great healer, but unfortunately it is also a terrible disintegrator."
"War makes rattling good history, but Peace is poor reading."
"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own."
"Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and power means the extension of good."
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"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"Happiness is a great love and much servitude."
"In my experience, the novelists are the kind of people who make the worst husbands and fathers."
"Good women's modesty outruns their beauty."
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
"We ought not to be governed by bitterness against those who have injured us, for they are in the hands of a mightier power than man's."
"To find at last that after all one isn't so bad is enough to make life a permanent holiday."
"Thought is not always active. It is often possible to fall into a daydream when thought is inchoate."
"To love her was a liberal education."
"In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things, the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving."
"When a great brain appears and commands categorization, it is usually so largely in the direction of illness, calling into requisition other brains."
"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."
"Life is a lot like a wall. Sometimes it's hard to get over, and some days you just run into it headfirst."
"Adversity, which could have been a platform for a better thought-out, well-directed life, sank him for a while."
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"We must conclude that pestilence sought us out, for it did not find us impregnably planted."
"A sudden, protracted sense of them being among 'his shells.' Weighty and beating in the eye of darkness."
"Meanwhile the sunlight was slanting more and more athwart the floor, the staves of light reaching further and further from the window, and a dust mote danced in one of these."
"While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism."
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
"Every successful man is more or less a selfish man."
"To find one woman who does not relish having her heart romance for her! What sentimental asses we are!"
"Character is fate."
"After two hours' walking, we both travelled in an atmosphere of tender happiness. She had looked so charming and kind that morning."
"So many hearts in a cloud—and none anywhere!"
"No one knew the weight of the burden better than the man who carried it."
"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."
"What makes life worth living?"
"No one spoke for a minute; and then he continued in a low voice, If no one ever marries us we'll have each other, you and me."
"Their spirits leapt up at the contemplation of unanimity."
"Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them."
"The sky was clear—remarkably clear—and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
"Her strong charms seemed for the time to be exerted to then greatest advantage. Their owner appeared to be encircled by a halo of distinction which he had never perceived to be there till it had now grown visible."
"Against the background of this common sense there’s always that other element, that wild unconscious surreptitiousness! You will always be sure to induce a vision and transmute it into your own philosophy."
"They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends."
"To find beauty in sadness is noble. It demonstrates that even in the darkest of times, light can still shine through."
"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."
"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion."
"Thoughts were king, yet few have strength to keep them under control."
"We are getting to the level of an evil nightmare."
"The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay not among things done, but among things willed."
"Nobody could mistake him for a man who had only half learned to live."
"She wondered how all could have been so different merely a half-hour ago."
"But as we read on we find that the author has not told us the half of what these men felt."
"I have too much wrong about me to have time for moans."
"Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized."
"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
"What man is the architect of his own personal fate!"
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
"Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
"If a way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst."
"To find beauty in sadness is not an easy matter."
"Patience, that blending of moral courage and physical timidity."
"Fear is the mother of foresight."
"War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."
"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened."
"Thought is amazing, being made out of naught."
"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"To cherish a romantic hope is nothing less than to cherish a saint in some shrine."
"Readers are less than good writers because the best of ‘em are those who write."
"He felt that he self was that well-known stranger, the friend within him."
"Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice."
"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."
"Time is the enemy of the unfortunate; turn it, thus spending the spent."
"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."
"When you go, if you ever do, you'll find these words. ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!"
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