My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
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