Charles Dickens Quotes

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.