857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

What of the faith and fire within us / Men who march away / Ere the barncocks say / Night is growing gray, / Leaving all that here can win us?

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

All romances end at marriage.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!

Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.

So zestfully canst thou sing? / And all this indignity, / With God's consent, on thee! / Blinded ere yet a-wing.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.