Dames Quote by Charles Robert Maturin

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.

— Frederick William Faber

“Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert yet alive…

— Mary Shelley

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes…

— Isaac Watts

“The Sacred Word of God shall sanctifies us of any wretchedness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“my only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men”

— Bryce Courtenay

“-Too often college Bible classes end up like this- With eager knife that oft has sliced At Gentile gloss, or Jewish fable, Before the…

— Canon Ainger

“O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet…

— John Donne

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

— Jane Jacobs

“Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned”

— Edward Abbey

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the…

— John Milton