Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

O wretched state! o bosom black as death! — William Shakespeare
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. — Ralph Steadman
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are… — Chuck Klosterman
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. — Publilius Syrus
We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the… — Albert Camus
Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing. — Warsan Shire
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery. — Mercy Otis Warren
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in… — Kevin Myers
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand… — Caitlin Thomas
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling… — C.S. Lewis
The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and… — Erich Maria Remarque
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. — Pema Chodron
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly… — Earnest Hooton
I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched. — Bob Dylan
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus. — J C Ryle
Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out. — Sigourney Weaver
It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of… — Richard Baxter
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. — Cyprian
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his… — Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. — Nahum Tate
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. — Isaac Barrow

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