Wretched Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

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.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

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

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

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

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

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