857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.