Wretched Quotes

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

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!

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

We men are wretched things.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.

I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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

The most wretched have yet hope.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.