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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.
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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.
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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.
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
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.
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.
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
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.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.
Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
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.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.
The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy Black.
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.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
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.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
I did, however, manage to do it without hurting those dogs. Very considerate of me. Don't let it be said I'm not an animal lover-that wretched kitsune aside.
