Life Quotes by Charles Dickens

“To be the hero of my life or forever its victim.”

— Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

— Charles Dickens

“All that is loathsome, drooping, or decayed is here.”

— Charles Dickens

“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it,”

— Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

— Charles Dickens

“Yours is a long life to look back upon, sir?”

— Charles Dickens

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

— Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

— Charles Dickens

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”

— Charles Dickens

“In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time.”

— Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

— Charles Dickens

“A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself.”

— Charles Dickens

“Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation”

— Charles Dickens

“The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled to Life”

— Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

— Charles Dickens

Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when…

— Charles Dickens

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to…

— Charles Dickens

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a…

— Charles Dickens

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life…

— Charles Dickens

“Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same.”

— Charles Dickens

“Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life…

— Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel…

— Charles Dickens

“Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find…

— Charles Dickens

“The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a…

— Charles Dickens

Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed…

— Charles Dickens

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only…

— Charles Dickens

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and…

— Charles Dickens

... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her…

— Charles Dickens

His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from…

— Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.…

— Charles Dickens

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down…

— Charles Dickens

“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw…

— Charles Dickens

“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there…

— Charles Dickens

“Estella was the inspiration of it, and the heart of it, of course. But, though she had taken such strong possession of…

— Charles Dickens

Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth…

— Charles Dickens

“was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Nobody was ever on any account to…

— Charles Dickens

“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up,…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick,…

— Charles Dickens

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but…

— Charles Dickens