Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have… — Paulo Coelho
I wish I could hold you,' she continued, bitterly, 'till we were both dead! I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your… — Emily Bronte
...we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and… — Julian of Norwich
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole… — Daniel Handler
Wretched unfair, it is,” he remarked. “Of the three of us, I’m the one who’s always collected the rare and unusual, yet you two managed… — Jeaniene Frost
It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was. — Maggie Stiefvater
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. — Samuel Johnson
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy… — Blaise Pascal
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. — Seneca the Younger
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. — John McCain
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to… — John Milton
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors,… — Philip Slater
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a… — Walter Hilton
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Seneca the Younger
I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April;… — Charlotte Bronte
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. — Charles Darwin
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that… — Saint Bernard
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a… — Oliver Ellsworth
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. — Virgil
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. — Empedocles
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape… — Samuel Hopkins
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. — Charles Mackay
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our… — Fanny Kemble

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