Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings. — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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… — Samuel Hoffenstein Copy Share Image
People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer.… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
