Wretched Quotes
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
Saint Bernard
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman -
We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
Isabelle Eberhardt -
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.
Euripides -
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
Oscar Wilde -
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius -
My wretched dragon is perplexed.
William Butler Yeats
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Sophocles -
You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.
Pythagoras -
Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.
Blaise Pascal -
One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
Blaise Pascal -
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac -
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Josiah Strong
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When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
Gautama Buddha -
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin -
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.
Allen W. Wood -
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.
Michelle Moran -
The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.
George du Maurier
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
Seneca the Younger -
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
Seneca the Younger -
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
Catherynne M. Valente -
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca the Younger