Thomas Hardy Quotes

    Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
    Thomas Hardy
    Change
    These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.
    Thomas Hardy
    Philosophy
    When I set out for Lyonnesse, And starlight lit my lonesomeness.
    Thomas Hardy
    Literature
    To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience
    Thomas Hardy
    Friendship
    With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.
    Thomas Hardy
    Love
    It is commonly said that no man was ever converted by argument, but there is a single one which will make any Laodicean in England, let him be once love-sick, wear prayer-books and become a zealous Episcopalian – the argument that his sweetheart can be seen from his pew.
    Thomas Hardy
    Religion
    To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.
    Thomas Hardy
    Nature
    Good, but not religious-good.
    Thomas Hardy
    Ethics
    For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.
    Thomas Hardy
    Love

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