“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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 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
“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
“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
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
... 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
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 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 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
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
“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
“O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us! Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, Since riches point to misery… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Raskolnikov went out in complete confusion. This confusion became more and more intense. As he went down the stairs, he even stopped… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
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
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
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
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
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