Pip

Character in Great Expectations From: Great Expectations

Protagonist and narrator; an orphan with great expectations

624 quotes

"I should have been the very last person on whom to test such hopes."
Hope
"I must tell you the truth, whatever it costs me."
Truth
"I had the strangest feeling that something was about to happen."
"I cannot live as I have been living. Something must change."
Change
"She seemed to take pleasure in my discomfort."
Relationships
"I would give anything to undo the past."
"I have been a fool, but not the worst of fools."
Wisdom
"Time has a way of healing even the deepest wounds."
Time
"She was everything I had ever dreamed of, and nothing of what I had imagined."
Love
"I came to understand that true wealth lies not in money, but in the love and respect of others."
Wisdom
"Do not judge me too harshly for what I have done."
Kindness
"My life has been a series of great expectations that have all turned to dust."
"I have learned that the gentlemen of the world are not always the most noble of men."
Wisdom
"It is too late to change what has been done, but perhaps not too late to do better in the future."
Hope
"I have never been so miserable, yet never so alive as I am now."
"I have come to value her more now that she is lost to me than I ever did when I possessed her."
Love
"I think I have never been happier than I am now."
Happiness
"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."
Family
"There have been sorrow enough in my life to make me phantasmagoric."
Life
"I am afraid I am a coarse common boy."
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."
Perseverance
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."
Education
"I am not what I once was, and I cannot be reconciled to myself as I am."
Change
"There are certain seasons when you are afraid of yourself."
Fear
"I have nothing more to tell you about my expectations."
Dreams
"The course of true love never runs smooth."
Love
"I have had the experience of wearing this ring."
Time
"I must have been a singular little creature to judge myself so harshly."
"I am afraid I am a coarse common boy again."
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."
Perseverance