3 Charles Dickens Quotes on Suffering

Charles Dickens quotes on suffering

18. Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

58. To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things-but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

85. If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.