4 Thomas Hardy Quotes on Emotion

Thomas Hardy quotes on emotion

9. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

41. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

58. 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?'

62. 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.