A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.
Charles DickensJoe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible.
Charles DickensOn the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life!
Charles DickensTags: great-expectations
The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
Charles DickensTags: great-expectations
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.
Charles DickensWhitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.
Charles DickensTags: stubbornness forehead obstinacy whitewash
It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.
Charles DickensAye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.
Charles DickensTags: love lonliness heartache
Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
Charles DickensTags: love madness charles-dickens
The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that we know it is all meaningless, and say so, while they know it equally and will never say so.
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