Death Quotes by Charles Dickens

Death is nature's remedy for all things

— Charles Dickens

“Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals...”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

“And O there are days i this life, worth life and worth death”

— Charles Dickens

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

— Charles Dickens

“The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death”

— Charles Dickens

“He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that…

— Charles Dickens

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and…

— Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

— Charles Dickens

“from the death of each day's hope, another hope sprang up to live tomorrow.”

— 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

“Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.”

— Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

— Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too…

— Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is,…

— Charles Dickens

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much…

— Charles Dickens

“Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother,…

— Charles Dickens

“It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste…

— Charles Dickens

“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,…

— Charles Dickens

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the…

— Charles Dickens

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

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious…

— Charles Dickens

... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake,…

— Charles Dickens

“My loneliness since then, in all this noise and riot, has been very dreadful. May God forgive me! He has seen my…

— Charles Dickens

“Others collected round the coach, and gave vent to various surmises; some held that she had fallen asleep; some, that she had…

— Charles Dickens

It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night,…

— Charles Dickens

“He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding…

— 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

“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

“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

“I stood upon a chair when I was left alone, and looked into the glass to see how red my eyes were,…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“...kneel down, kneel down- kneel round her every one of you, and mark my words. I say she starved to death. I…

— Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I…

— Charles Dickens

“Therefore, he sat before his dying fire, sorrowful to think upon the way by which he had come to that night, yet…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to…

— Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

— Charles Dickens

“And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up…

— 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