A CHRISTMAS CAROL THEMES AND QUOTES

Transformation: “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Redemption: “I have been in darkness, and I have seen the light.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Giving: “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer?” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Isolation and loneliness: “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob… Business! Mankind was my business.” – Jacob Marley’s Ghost

The power of memories and nostalgia: “These are but shadows of the things that have been. They have no consciousness of us.” – The Ghost of Christmas Past

Family and community: “God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim

Materialism vs. spiritual wealth: “I wear the chain I forged in life… I made it link by link, and yard by yard.” – Jacob Marley’s Ghost

Repentance: “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!… The spirits of all three shall strive within me.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Remorse and regret: “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” – Narrator

Generosity: “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business.” – Jacob Marley’s Ghost

Selfishness: “I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Forgiveness: “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Second chances: “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!… The spirits of all three shall strive within me.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Empathy and compassion: “It is required of every man…that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide…and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.” – Jacob Marley’s Ghost A GOOD DEATH QUOTE

Reflection and self-awareness: “I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link, and yard by yard.” – Jacob Marley’s Ghost

Gratitude: “I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Social responsibility: “Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business.” – Jacob Marley’s Ghost

Love and empathy: “May you be happy in the life you have chosen!” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

Joy and celebration: “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

The consequences of greed: “He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” – Narrator

The power of hope: “He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head.” – Narrator

Perspective: “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor.” – Narrator

The impact of kindness: “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city knew.” – Narrator

Awareness of privilege: “I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

Selfishly hoarding wealth: “No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!” – Narrator

The importance of tradition: “Old Marley was dead as a doornail…This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.” – Narrator