"The Return of the Native" Quotes
"The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy explores the tumultuous relationships and tragic fates of characters living on the desolate Egdon Heath.
classics | 452 pages | Published in 1994
Quotes
There is a certain degree of folly in misanthropy which is not to be found in pride.
To be loved to madness—such was her great desire.
The great inscrutable works of Nature.
Human beings, in their generous endeavor to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own.
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
The hours of sunshine left on the day were now to be counted by minutes.
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
My whole soul is one great love-song.
Our impulse is to create and the Devil may take the hindmost.
