857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

The tearful glimmer of the languid dawn’ was just sufficient to reveal to them the melancholy red leaves, lying thickly in the channels by the roadside, ever and anon loudly tapped on by heavy drops of water, which the boughs above had collected from the foggy air.

Oh yes,” she said, quickly. “I know all that. But don’t talk of it – seven or six years – where may we all be by that time?” “They will soon glide by, and it will seem an astonishingly short time to look back upon when they are past – much less than to look forward to now.

A man who has spent his primal strength in journeying in one direction has not much spirit left for reversing his course.

But loving is not done by months, or method, or rule, or nobody would ever have invented such a phrase as “falling in love.

When sorrow ceases to be speculative sleep sees her opportunity.

She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast.

Two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience.

His had been a love ’which alters when it alteration finds.

She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen and among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation?