Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is… — William Hazlitt 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
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
“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
This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in… — William Ernest Hocking 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
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
“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
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Imagine a personality so taking that others would pay their last simply to be in its presence. Then of course a number… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
