20 Thomas Hardy Quotes on Hardy

Thomas Hardy quotes on hardy

1. These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

2. When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness.

3. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience

12. William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!

14. Whence comes solace? Not from seeing, What is doing, suffering, being; Not from noting Life's conditions, Not from heeding Time's monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream And in gazing at the Gleam Whereby gray things golden seem.

16. I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.

30. Ah, no; the years, the years; Down their carved names the raindrop plows.

32. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I.

34. A star looks down at me, And says: 'Here I and you Stand each in our degree: What do you mean to do,- Mean to do?'

35. If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

39. To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction - every kind of evidence in the logician's list - have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.

44. The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.

52. Her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

53. All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.

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?'

59. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

60. 'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength, they arose, joined hands again, and went on.

64. Done because we are too menny.

65. Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

66. What of the Immanent Will and Its designs? It works unconsciously, as heretofore, Eternal artistries in Circumstance.