Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek… — Elizabeth von Arnim
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. — Adolf Hitler
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave… — Alexander MacLaren
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and… — Victor Hugo
Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday… — Jerry Seinfeld
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,… — Boethius
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks… — Seneca the Younger
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive? — Sergei Yesenin
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain. — Gautama Buddha
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off… — Gautama Buddha
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be… — Sophocles
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Publius Attius Varus
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. — Sophocles
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is… — Manohla Dargis
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is… — John McCain
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but… — James Cook
There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the… — Mikhail Bakunin
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement… — Dinesh D'Souza
But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use… — Gustave Flaubert
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl. — Barry Hannah
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. — Seneca the Younger
Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in… — John Bunyan

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