To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. — Eugene Delacroix 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
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anybody who's a mythology ... there's always a fear. That's why we don't like people whose skin color is different, whose eye… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Saint Augustine consolingly codified unhappiness as an immutable feature of existence, part of "the wretchedness of man's situation," and poured scorn on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl 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
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“As he breathed the black and grey air into his body he no longer thought of anything as lovely, the way the… — William T. Vollmann 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
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. — Thomas Sprat 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
Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and… — Siegfried Sassoon 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
“I do not think that there is so much wretchedness in us as vanity; we are not so much wicked as daft;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't… — Christopher Pike 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
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. — Peter Paul Rubens 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
“She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found… — Robert Beatty Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first… — Owen King Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should… — Emile Zola 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
I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition,… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
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