Quotes from Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy
1840–1928 England
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!
Jude the Obscure (1895)
But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would!
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Done because we are too menny.
Jude the Obscure (1895)
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.
Jude the Obscure (1895)
And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore.
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.
Jude the Obscure (1895)