Wretchedness Quotes

67 Wretchedness quotes by 54 unique authors

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of… — David Sedaris
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the… — Blaise Pascal
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have… — Marisha Pessl
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized… — James A. Baldwin
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever… — Emile Zola
What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. — Mary Oliver
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to… — Christopher Pike
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Years later Magnus would return to London and Camille Belcourt's side, and find it not all that he had dreamed. Years later another desperate Herondale… — Cassandra Clare
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.… — Soren Kierkegaard
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors,… — Philip Slater
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and… — James Allen
This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness. — Angela Carter
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is… — John Dickinson

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