The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
Oh dear. . . it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.
Muhammad was a jackass. People who believe in him are stupid. Let us call a spade as spade. These people must be laughed at. They, and their screwball prophet have to be ridiculed not respected. Let them cringe, let them wince, let them agonize. We must demolish this fetish and break the shackles of these wretched people. They must be set free and the only way to do that is to demolish their fetish.
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched,miserable and sinful they are.
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear. . . And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter. " "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you. " "Why not me?
We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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.
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