Charles Dickens Broken Quotations

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."