Wretched Quotes · Page 5

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and…

— Thomas Otway

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense…

— William Hazlitt

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

— Dante Alighieri

Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph…

— Henry Hazlitt

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

— George Lucas

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not…

— Blaise Pascal

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

— Lord Chesterfield

Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing…

— Lucretius

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The…

— Vladimir Lenin

Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply…

— Adolf Hitler

From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people…

— James Cook

Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty,…

— Stephen Rodrick

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began,…

— John Donne

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered…

— Anonymous

Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized…

— Thomas Paine

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot…

— Gautama Buddha

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus…

— Ovid

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to…

— Albert Camus

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

— Samuel Roth

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the…

— Huey Newton

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God…

— Caitlin Thomas

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.”

— Victor Hugo

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

— Charles Darwin

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the…

— Edward Young

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

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

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Thomas Moore

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis…

— Martial

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort…

— Fanny Kemble

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

— Tacitus

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

— Empedocles