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.”

“When false things are brought low,
And swift things have grown slow,
Feigning like froth shall go,
Faith be for aye.”

“That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement Day.”

“In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time. It could best be felt when it could not clearly be seen, its complete effect and explanation lying in this and the succeeding hours before the next dawn; then, and only then, did it tell its true tale.”

“If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.”

“Whence comes solace? Not from seeing,
What is doing, suffering, being;
Not from noting Life’s conditions,
Not from heeding Time’s monitions;
But in cleaving to the Dream
And in gazing at the Gleam
Whereby gray things golden seem.”

“Twas a little one-eyed, blinking sort o' place.”

“Why doth IT so and so, and ever so,
This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?”

“Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.”

“I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.”

“This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I.”

“That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. And that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. And that nobody is wished to see my dead body. And that no murners walk behind me at my funeral. And that no flours be planted on my grave. And that no man remember me.”

“Ere systemed suns were globed and lit
The slaughters of the race were writ.”

“To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.”

“Done because we are too menny.”

“To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience”

“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 encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”

“An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.”

“Few people seem to perceive fully as yet that the most far-reaching consequence of the establishment of the common origin of all species is ethical; that it logically involved a readjustment of altruistic morals, by enlarging, as a necessity of rightness, the application of what has been called the 'Golden Rule' from the area of mere mankind to that of the whole animal kingdom. Possibly Darwin himself did not quite perceive it. While man was deemed to be a creation apart from all other creations, a secondary or tertiary morality was considered good enough to practise towards the 'inferior' races; but no person who reasons nowadays can escape the trying conclusion that this is not maintainable. And though we may not at present see how the principle of equal justice all round is to be carried out in it entirety, I recognize that the League is grappling with the question.”

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

“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”