Wretched Quotes

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.