Words matter. These are the best Wretched Quotes from famous people such as Josiah Strong, Augusto Roa Bastos, Georges Bizet, Malcolm Muggeridge, John Major, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what’s behind them.
What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting.
As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
I don’t think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea – which can be very persistent and irritating – that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation’s federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.
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.
These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
We made ‘Wretched and Divine,’ and as much as I love it, it’s a pretty sparkly record – it’s a record that could be done as a play because it’s very theatrical with no grit.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Under Malcolm Fraser’s Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians – the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go to college – that kind of stuff. And then you have my family – me, my brother, all of my cousins – we’re just wretched people.
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.
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.
Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights victories and Civil Rights Bill and housing and so forth.
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
