Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives… — Paulo Coelho
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women.… — Thornton Wilder
I did, however, manage to do it without hurting those dogs. Very considerate of me. Don't let it be said I'm not an animal lover-that… — Richelle Mead
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched. — Paulo Coelho
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to… — Catherynne M. Valente
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern… — John le Carre
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of… — C.S. Lewis
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for. — Corrie Ten Boom
Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way… — Laini Taylor
We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of… — Alan Watts
You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing… — Pablo Neruda
Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope. — Michelle Moran
Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and… — Adolf Hitler
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But… — Hamza Yusuf
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything,… — Paulo Coelho
One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched.… — Sylvia Day
The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters — Mathias Malzieu
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such… — Oscar Wilde
pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular… — John Green
It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered… — Orhan Pamuk
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came… — Khalil Gibran
I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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