Certain Quote by Blaise Pascal

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who…

— Milena Jesenska

“Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.”

— Blaise Pascal

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

“Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of…

— Blaise Pascal

Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is…

— Boethius

The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is…

— Simone Weil

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd…

— Thomas Otway

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

— Martial

“Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman