Wretchedness Quotes

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.