The Battle of Life Quotes

“We count by changes and events within us. Not by years.”
― Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life: A Love Story

“A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher`s stone (much more easily discovered than the object of the alchemist`s researches), which sometimes trips up kind and generous men, and has the fatal property of turning gold to dross and every precious thing to poor account.”
― Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life

“Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought.

But, as I have observed that Time confuses occasionally, I hardly know what weight to give to his authority.”
― Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life

“The snow fell fast and thick. He looked up for a moment in the air, and thought that those white ashes strewn upon his hopes and misery, were suited to them well. He looked round on the whitening ground, and thought how Marion's foot-prints would be hushed and covered up, as soon as made, and even that remembrance of her blotted out. But he never felt the weather, and he never stirred.”
― Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life

“She answered with a smile; a mournful smile, but full of sisterly affection: and she looked in her sister's face, and listened to the quiet music of her voice, picturing the happiness of this return, her own face glowed with hope and joy.

And with something else: a something shining more and more through all the rest of its expression: for which I have no name. It was not so calmly shown. It was not love and gratitude alone, though love and gratitude were part of it. It emanated from no sordid thought, for sordid thoughts do not light up the brow, and hover on the lips, and move the spirit, like a fluttered light, until the sympathetic figure trembles.”
― Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life