Wisdom Quote by Thomas Hardy — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”

“She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation? She had Jeremy Taylor's thought that some time in the future those who had known her would say, 'It is the -th, the day that poor Tess Durbeyfield died'; and there would be nothing singular to their minds in the statement. Of that day, doomed to be her terminus in time through all the ages, she did not know the place in month, week, season, or year.”

“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”

“At once a voice arose among”

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

“Vandals listen only when others are stronger.”

“When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“Rebellion is not always loud. Sometimes it’s the quiet refusal to give up on tenderness.”

“This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.”

“Life must be much more evident when one is always suffering.”