Wretchedness Quotes

67 Wretchedness quotes by 54 unique authors

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. — Thomas Sprat
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. — Beth Henley
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. — Matt LeBlanc
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one… — William Hazlitt
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being… — William Hazlitt
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an… — Clarence Darrow
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation… — Jane Austen
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified… — Blaise Pascal
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

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