Wretched Quotes

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.'

If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

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.

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.