“ He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears... Thomas Hardy
“ For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once declared, though not to her, that on one occasion he had noticed himself t… 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? Thomas Hardy
“ Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas whi… Thomas Hardy
“ A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no… Thomas Hardy
“ What a way Oak had, she thought, of enduring things. Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple less… Thomas Hardy
“ There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child. Thomas Hardy
“ There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. It i… Thomas Hardy
“ Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling,… Thomas Hardy
“ Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; Thomas Hardy
“ Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did c… Thomas Hardy
“ She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in… Thomas Hardy
“ She knew how to hit to a hair's breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leavin… Thomas Hardy
“ On a Fine Morning in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeingWhat is doing, suffering, being,Not from noting Life’s conditions,Nor from heeding Time’s monitions; B… Thomas Hardy
“ It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity Thomas Hardy
“ How people will talk about one’s doings! Fancy exclaimed.Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can’t blame other people for singing ’em. Thomas Hardy
“ Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me s… Thomas Hardy
“ At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a part of it; for the world is only a psychological phenomenon, a… Thomas Hardy
“ You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of s… Thomas Hardy
