Quotes of Wretched - somelinesforyou

“ Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. ”

- Boethius

“ Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable. ”

- Paul Little

“ I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen. ”

- Matthew

“ Nothing. I was miserable. I didn't wear this shirt,... I refused to wear it. ”

- John Madden

“ I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. ”

- John D. Rockefeller

“ I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. ”

- Nick Cave

“ But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be — a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ”

- Mary Shelley

“ Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. ”

- Lucius Accius

“ I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. ”

- Virgil

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

- Publilius Syrus

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. ”

- J. M. Coetzee

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ”

- Nahum Tate

“ He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ”

- Plato

“ 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. ”

- Alice James

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

- Robert Burns

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

- Juvenal

“ Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance… a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. ”

- William Barclay

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

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ”

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Queen Elizabeth
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