“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“…and yet to every bad, there is a worse”
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
"We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in."
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
"So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky."
― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)