“Others collected round the coach, and gave vent to various surmises; some held that she had fallen asleep; some, that she had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death:… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devoted to her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Nobody was ever on any account to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Therefore, he sat before his dying fire, sorrowful to think upon the way by which he had come to that night, yet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“from the death of each day's hope, another hope sprang up to live tomorrow.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Other men’s fathers may have died of the rheumatism or may have taken base contagion from the tainted blood of the sick… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I'm pretty well. So's the family, and so's the boys, except for a sort of rash as is a running through the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“They meet again at dinner--again, next day-- again, for many days in succession. Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...kneel down, kneel down- kneel round her every one of you, and mark my words. I say she starved to death. I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
