He supposed he was not a sufficiently dignified person for suicide.Peaceful death abhorred him as a subject and would not take him. - Thomas Hardy

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be — and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak

...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!'
'For how long?'
'O - ever so long. Days and days.'
'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!'
'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned.

Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?'

'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.