Thomas Hardy Quotes on Emotion
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Moreover she, and Clare also, stood as yet on the debatable land between predilection and love; where no profundities have been reached; no reflections have set in, awkwardly inquiring, 'Whither does this new current tend to carry me? What does it mean to my future? How does it stand towards my past?'
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Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.