Wretched Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

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.

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

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

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.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

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.

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

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.