Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place… — George MacDonald
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the… — Rosa Luxemburg
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how… — Georgette Heyer
I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the… — Jennifer Donnelly
He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready… — Connie Willis
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of… — Vladimir Nabokov
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? — Kate Morton
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that… — W G Sebald
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted. — Alexandre Dumas
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding. — Catherynne M. Valente
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are… — Oscar Wilde
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose… — Blaise Pascal
We men are wretched things. — Homer
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like… — Alexandre Dumas
Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep… — Gail Carriger
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat,… — John Bradshaw
They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the… — Karen Maitland
Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain… — Dorothy Parker
What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by… — Dorothy Dunnett

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