I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the profound and often irrational nature of love that persists despite numerous obstacles and hardships.
In this quote, Charles Dickens highlights the powerful and inexorable force of love, suggesting that true affection can endure even in the face of overwhelming challenges and despair. The repetition of 'against' conveys the idea that the speaker's love transcends logical reasoning, promises, and the ideals of peace and happiness, illustrating how deep emotional connections can thrive in adversity.
In practice
A wedding speech where the speaker recalls the challenges the couple faced but emphasized their love.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that youre supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time.
Love, too, was just a question of time
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.
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