Quotes by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) — Schriftsteller · keine · England

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, der vor allem in London und Kent wirkte. Mit weltbekannten Romanen wie „A Christmas Carol“ oder „Oliver Twist“ prangerte er soziale Missstände, Armut und religiöse Heuchelei an. Für Bibelleser verdeutlichen seine Texte eindrücklich christliche Motive wie Umkehr, Vergebung und gelebte Barmherzigkeit, während sein problematischer Umgang mit seiner Ehefrau und zeittypische Vorurteile einen Schatten auf seine Biografie werfen.

Era: Revival & the 19th Century

Recurring topics: Love, Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Joy & Gratitude, Relationships & Family, Hope & Confidence, Ethical Questions, Time & Transience

Quotes by Charles Dickens

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens

Even a heavy door needs only a small key.
Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
Charles Dickens

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.
Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

I feel that trifles make the sum of life.
Charles Dickens

Children experience nothing so sharply and bitterly as injustice.
Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens

You have been the last dream of my soul.
Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Charles Dickens

You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
Charles Dickens

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Charles Dickens

Is there a better way to cope with life than with love and humor?
Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

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

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
Charles Dickens

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Charles Dickens

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles Dickens

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Sources: smithsonianmag.com, thevintagenews.com, mentalfloss.com

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