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I couldn't find any meaning for my life when I was out there, I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here. This… — Jeffrey Dahmer
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on.… — Anna Julia Cooper
Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned… — Larry Atchley Jr.
Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity! — Spencer W. Kimball
In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details. — Jane Jacobs
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his… — D. A. Carson
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. — Josiah Strong
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. — Hesiod
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and… — James A. Baldwin
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life… — Norman Cousins
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. — Victor Hugo
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified… — Edith Wharton
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched. — Ovid
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. — Seneca the Younger
The wretched reflect either too much or too little. — Publilius Syrus
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ... — Dorothy Parker
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care. — Euripides
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not. — Euripides
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we… — Blaise Pascal
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. — James L. Brooks
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to… — Gerhard Richter
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do;… — John Burroughs
O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can… — Dante Alighieri

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