Best Wretched Thoughts

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven. — Jupiter Hammon
If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite… — Jonathan Hull
Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of… — Pio of Pietrelcina
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wretched un-idea'd girls. — Samuel Johnson
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. — Seneca the Younger
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. — Plautus
A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As… — William Shakespeare
He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity. — William Shakespeare
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. — Juvenal
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched… — Fridtjof Nansen
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. — Ammianus Marcellinus
You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and… — Pythagoras
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the… — Vladimir Lenin
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their… — Jean de la Bruyere
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched… — C.S. Lewis
The wretched have no friends. — John Dryden
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful. — Pope Francis
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. — Isaac D'Israeli
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow… — Dag Hammarskjold
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. — William Hazlitt
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. — Eric Hoffer

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