Hardy Quotes

“She might have seen what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world’s concern at her situation - was founded on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought. If she made herself miserable the livelong night and day it was only this much to them - ‘Ah, she makes herself unhappy.’ If she tried to be cheerful, to dismiss all care, to take pleasure in the daylight, the flowers, the baby, she could only be this idea to them - ‘Ah, she bears it very well.”
― Thomas Hardy, Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the want to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.”
― Thomas Hardy, Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles