Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and… — Francis Beaumont
When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way. — Shane Claiborne
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession! — Georges Bizet
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth,… — Lester Bangs
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them — Augusto Roa Bastos
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ...… — John Masefield
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most… — Georgette Heyer
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have… — Andrew Jackson
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it… — William Henry Harrison
Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice… — Chuck Klosterman
Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be… — Johann Arndt
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task… — Hector Hugh Munro
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. — Fridtjof Nansen
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.… — George Bernard Shaw
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for… — William Wilberforce
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase… — Alfred the Great
Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be… — Rajneesh
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company. — Abraham Cowley
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is… — Nelson Mandela
The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they… — W. Somerset Maugham
Fear drives the wretched to prayer — Seneca the Younger
From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise — Samuel Johnson
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though… — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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