"At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn...
Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.
More Thomas Hardy quotes
"Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she en...
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.
"As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have made it unable to continue. Their views of the...
"Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it co...
"There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosop...
"How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her...
"In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for l...
"My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
"Though fervent was our vow,Though ruddily ran our pleasure,Bliss has fulfilled its measure,And sees its sentence now.Ache deep; but make no moans:Smil...
"I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
"The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that peri...
"A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
"What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and someti...
"She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially attends the dawnings of reason in the latter days o...