Wretched Quotes

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

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

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

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.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

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

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

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

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

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.

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

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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.

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.