Wretchedness Quotes

• 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 who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Vanity

• The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.

  Daniel Cawdry
  • Christ
  • Sin
  • Miserable

• 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 in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Giving
  • Tragedy
  • Destruction

• Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • Wretchedness