Wretchedness Quotes
67 quotes by 54 authors
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that…
— Vincent de Paul
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Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
— John of the Cross
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable…
— Simone Weil
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they…
— Seneca the Younger
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
— Simone Weil
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any…
— George Washington
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious…
— Thomas Paine
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There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty…
— Hannah Arendt
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There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element…
— William Lane Craig
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian…
— John Calvin
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I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
— Pema Chodron
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men…
— W G Sebald
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I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.
— Rembrandt
Who Wrote These Wretchedness Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 67 Wretchedness Quotes, led by these top contributors: