Quote by

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
– Thomas Hardy

Related Quotes:

  1. While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. – Chapter 5 My Cinderella – Santosh Avvannavar
  2. …for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves. – Dorothy Rowe
  3. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. – Coco Chanel
  4. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
  5. The human being now simply can’t close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one’s fellows perhaps prevent full ????oning by artists. – Saul Bellow
  6. Always wanting another man than your own. – Thomas Hardy
  7. Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. – Thomas Hardy
  8. An average woman is in this superior to an average man-”that she never instigates, only responds. – Thomas Hardy
  9. Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser. – Stephen Richards
  10. Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger. – Debasish Mridha
  11. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better — it is just turning around as usual. – Finley Peter Dunne
  12. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. – Dejan Stojanovic
  13. If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular-”all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  14. Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up. – James C Dobson
  15. I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you’ve been growing like wildfire. – Phoebe Stone
  16. Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying. – Raven Moore
  17. It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man. – VE Schwab
  18. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
  19. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
  20. God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself. – Thomas F Torrance
  21. Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. – Thomas Sowell
  22. Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? – Thomas Hardy
  23. Was once lost always lost really true of chastity? – Thomas Hardy
  24. There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating. – Thomas Hardy
  25. My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all. – Thomas Hardy
  26. A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. – Thomas Hardy
  27. Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have ’em? – Thomas Hardy
  28. The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given. – Thomas Hardy
  29. Don’t that make your bosom plim? – Thomas Hardy
  30. She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play – Thomas Hardy
  31. Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences. – Thomas Hardy
  32. Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration. – Thomas Hardy
  33. I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger. – Thomas Hardy
  34. If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later. – Thomas Hardy
  35. Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being. – Thomas Hardy
  36. I have sometimes thought–that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know! – Thomas Hardy
  37. I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! – Thomas Hardy
  38. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing. – Thomas Hardy
  39. And strange-eyed constellations reignHis stars eternally. – Thomas Hardy
  40. Her suspense was terrible. – Thomas Hardy

More Quotes

, , , , ,