Thomas Hardy Quotes about Pain

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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Thomas Hardy

Pain, Drama, Episodes

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Thomas Hardy

Pain, Imagination, Pleasure

Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.69, e-artnow

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Thomas Hardy

Pain, Eye, Lips

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1070, Delphi Classics

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.

Thomas Hardy

Pain, Grief, Passion

Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.103, OUP Oxford

Thomas Hardy Quotes about Pain

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