Wretchedness Quotes

67 Wretchedness quotes by 54 unique authors

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. — Peter Paul Rubens
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to… — Dante Alighieri
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which… — A. N. Wilson
I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream,… — Langston Hughes
Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery. — Charles Spurgeon
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either… — Blaise Pascal
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… — Thomas Jefferson
May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church… — Martin Luther
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal
What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but… — Pope John Paul II
Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers… — Blaise Pascal
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran. — Anwar Sadat
Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and… — William Bligh
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… — Mark Twain
Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know… — W. Somerset Maugham
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility — George Santayana
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which… — William Dean Howells

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