Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. — Samuel Johnson
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. — John Major
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. — Thomas Moore
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a… — Blaise Pascal
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. — Blaise Pascal
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. — Steven Pinker
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. — Plautus
As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a… — John Podhoretz
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I… — Terry Pratchett
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. — David Sedaris
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. — Tacitus
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! — Leonardo da Vinci
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As… — William Shakespeare
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to… — Douglas Adams
If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had… — Italo Calvino
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and… — Naomi Novik
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not… — Charles Frazier
A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you. — Khaled Hosseini
Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart… — Albert Camus
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. — Voltaire
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My wretched dragon is perplexed. — William Butler Yeats
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent… — Terry Eagleton

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