Frases de Thomas Hardy

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“Un amante sin indiscreciones no es amante en modo alguno.”

“Es difícil para una mujer definir sus sentimientos en un lenguaje creado principalmente por el hombre para expresar los suyos.”

“La felicidad no depende de lo que uno no tiene, sino del buen uso que hace de lo que tiene.”

“Acepto las condiciones, Ángel, puesto que tú sabes mejor que yo el castigo que merezco. Ahora que no me lo impongas tan duro que no lo pueda resistir.”

“Ahora, mi amor- murmuró-, eres mío y sólo mío porque ella al fin se ha olvidado de ti, a pesar de que murieras por ella. Pero cada vez que yo me levante pensaré en ti y cada vez que me vaya a dormir volveré a pensar en ti.”

“rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar. Raramente dice la naturaleza «¡Mira!» al pobre ser humano en el instante en que hacerlo así puede conducirle a la felicidad; y pocas veces responde «Aquí» al grito de «¿Dónde?», hasta que ese juego del escondite degenera en un pasatiempo pesado y tedioso.”

“Había alcanzado ese momento de la vida en que «joven» deja de ser el calificativo de «hombre» cuando se habla de uno. Se encontraba en la plenitud de su desarrollo masculino, pues su intelecto y sus emociones se hallaban claramente diferenciadas: había pasado la edad en la que la influencia de la juventud mezcla indiscriminadamente ambas cosas, produciendo un carácter impulsivo, pero aún no había alcanzado esa otra en la que vuelven a conciliarse para producir un carácter aprensivo, por la influencia de la esposa y la familia. En resumidas cuentas, tenía veintiocho años y estaba soltero.”

“Se recostó contra las colmenas, y levantando al cielo la cara, hizo algunas observaciones a propósito de las estrellas, cuyas frías pulsaciones palpitaban en las negras oquedades de allá arriba, llenas de serena indiferencia respecto a aquellas dos briznas de humanidad.”

“Trabaja duro y sé pobre, no hagas nada y obtén más.”

“tal vez me interesara saber por qué… por qué sale el sol lo mismo para el bueno que para el malo”

“Coloreamos y moldeamos de acuerdo a las necesidades dentro de nosotros, sea lo que sea que traigan nuestros ojos”

“Bathsheba había alcanzado ese punto en el que la gente deja de preocuparse por lo que los demás puedan pensar.”

“Conduces bien, pero no besas bien en absoluto.”

“Ah, "Se dijo a sí misma, querer un objeto por el que vivir- ¡eso es todo lo que me pasa!”

“Y al fin el octavo día llegó. La vaca había dejado de dar leche para el resto del año, y Bathsheba Everdene no volvería a subir la colina. Gabriel había alcanzado un punto en su existencia que jamás habría podido imaginar poco antes. Disfrutaba diciendo « Bathsheba» en privado, en lugar de silbar; y empezó a gustarle más el pelo negro, pese a que desde niño se había jurado fiel al castaño, distanciándose de los demás hasta ocupar a sus ojos un espacio insignificante. El amor es una fuerza posible que nace de una debilidad real.”

“Tras realizar algunas averiguaciones supo que el nombre de la muchacha era Bathsheba Everdene”

“Bueno, pero no religioso, bueno.”

“No se turbe vuestro corazón, ni tenga miedo.”

“Hecho porque somos demasiado menny.”

“Un culto local, llamado cristianismo.”

“Quiero cuestionar mi creencia, para que lo que quede después de haberlo cuestionado sea aún más fuerte.”

“¿Es una mujer una unidad pensante en absoluto, o una fracción que siempre quiere su número entero?”

“En lo alto, el tramo hueco de nube blanquecina que cerraba el cielo era como una tienda de campaña que tenía todo el páramo para su piso.”

“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”

“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope….”

“I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!”

“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”

“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”

“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail…”

“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”

“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”

“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”

“Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?”

“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”

“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

“Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.”

“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”

“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”

“… she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.”

“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out
of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a
short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”

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

“That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!”

“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”

“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”

“To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.”

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”

“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”

“and yet to every bad, there is a worse”