“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.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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English novelist and poet 1840–1928Related quotes
“And like a passing thought, she fled
In light away.”
The Vision.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I don't believe in rape.But everytime She passes by,wild thoughts escape”
"God Part II"
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
Context: I don't believe in rape. But everytime She passes by, wild thoughts escape
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
"Daisy and Venison" from Progress of Stories (Deya, Majorca: Seizin Press; London, Constable, 1935)
“Ill times may be; she hath no thought of time:
She reigns beside the waters yet in pride.”
"Oxford"
Context: p>Ill times may be; she hath no thought of time:
She reigns beside the waters yet in pride.
Rude voices cry: but in her ears the chime
Of full, sad bells brings back her old springtide. Like to a queen in pride of place, she wears
The splendour of a crown in Radcliffe's dome.
Well fare she, well! As perfect beauty fares;
And those high places, that are beauty's home.</p
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 13, “The Nest Builders” (p. 406).