Charles Dickens Quotes

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

I'm dying always.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

’While there is life, there’s hope,’ he cried; ‘Then why such haste?’ so groaned and died.

People's fear doth ofttimes degenerate into desperation

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!