Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and… — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with… — Blaise Pascal
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time… — Jack Kerouac
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking… — Jim Cymbala
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune… — Eugene V. Debs
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the… — Victor Hugo
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last… — Charles Dickens
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You… — John Steinbeck
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans,… — Jack Kerouac
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or… — Jacques Barzun
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not… — William H. Gass
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man… — Tom Stoppard
Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What… — Nancy Mitford
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds! — Gustave Flaubert
Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. — Milorad PaviÄ‡
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be… — Albert Camus
You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother!… — Bryan Lee O'Malley
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched. — Jane Austen
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts… — Christopher Marlowe
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when… — D. A. Carson
So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are… — D. H. Lawrence
Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality. — Louise Penny
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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