Charles Dickens Quotes About Solitude

• When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Shining

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.469

• Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens (1843). “The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.200

• Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

  Charles Dickens

  Cheer, Live Life, Fall

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

• A multitude of people and yet solitude.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Solitude, Multitudes

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.87, The Planet

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