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Character in Great Expectations From: Great Expectations

Protagonist and narrator; an orphan with great expectations

624 quotes

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness."
Love
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."
Perseverance
"It was the look of a gentleman."
Success
"The course I cursed myself for, the year I cursed myself for, the moment I cursed myself for."
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
Life
"You don't know what it is to want a thing when every fibre of your being is straining after it."
Dreams
"The world was not then half so large and complicated to me."
Change
"I have never been so near happiness as I feel now."
Happiness
"All partings foreshadow death."
Death
"There is nothing more painful than to be conscious of your own weakness."
Strength
"I must do something of an active nature."
Motivation
"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me."
Change
"I had never known what struggle was until I was borne away from the village."
Perseverance
"She treated my love with supreme indifference."
Love
"Great expectations indeed!"
Dreams
"I had never known happiness till now."
Happiness
"Ambition is the curse of great minds."
Success
"I was frightened by the strangeness of the place."
Fear
"The power of money cannot be overestimated."
Money
"I felt that I was growing desperate."
"One cannot be at peace without understanding oneself."
Peace
"The past will always return to haunt us."
Time
"I understood the real nature of my feelings."
Wisdom
"I was tortured by the thought of what I might have been."
"Our relationship was built upon pretense."
Relationships
"I learned that true gentleness comes from within."
Kindness
"The expectations of others can crush the spirit."
Inspiration
"I discovered the strength I did not know I possessed."
Strength
"The truth about my origins changed everything."
Truth
"I had become a man unworthy of my former companions."
Change