“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
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
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 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
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
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
“No, no," cried Marianne, "misery such as mine has no pride. I care not who knows that I am wretched. The triumph… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge… — Blaise Pascal 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
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
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
The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that… — Simone Weil 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
“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
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 law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Haunted by my own wretchedness, I know I will die with great regrets.” — R.P. McCabe Copy Share Image
“The Sacred Word of God shall sanctifies us of any wretchedness.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“His shoes looked too large; his sleeve looked too long; his hair looked too limp; his features looked too mean; his exposed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
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