Once victim, always victim — thats the law! – Thomas Hardy
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we cant get out of it if we would. – Thomas Hardy
Once victim, always victim — thats the law! – Thomas Hardy
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we cant get out of it if we would. – Thomas Hardy
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. – Olive Schreiner
When a mans life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other mens actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. – Simone Weil