The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

Topics: Disappointment Quotes, Fulfilment Quotes

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is...

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is...

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly...

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly...

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.