Top 484 Wretched Quotes & Sayings

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

The most wretched have yet hope.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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

The wretched have no friends.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

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

But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

My wretched dragon is perplexed.

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

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

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

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 condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

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

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

We men are wretched things.

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

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

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

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

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

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.

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

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.

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

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

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.

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

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.