Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
Charles DickensSurely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!
Charles DickensFrom the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman
Charles DickensThe broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
Charles Dickens