Wretch Quotes

• Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

  

  Sophocles
  • Enemy
  • Shadows
  • Phantoms

• You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Know
  • Wretch

• A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

  

  Charles Robert Maturin
  • Head
  • Scream
  • Wretch

• Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hours
  • Days
  • Miserable

• -Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Cry
  • Wretch