Wretched Quotes

A more shocking scene cannot be imagined, than that witnessed by the party of men who went to the relief of the unfortunate emigrants in the California Mountains. The bones of those who had died and been devoured by the miserable ones that still survived were lying around their tents and cabins. Bodies of men, women and children, with half the flesh torn from them, lay on every side. A woman sat by the body of her husband, who had just died, eating out his tongue; the heart she had already taken out, broiled, and eat! The daughter was seen eating the flesh of the father - the mother that of her children - children that of father and mother. The emaciated, wild, and ghastly appearance of the survivors, added to the horror of the scene. Language cannot describe the awful change that a few weeks of dire suffering had wrought in the minds of these wretched and pitiable beings. Those who but one month before would have shuddered and sickened at the thought of eating human flesh, or of killing their companions and relatives to preserve their own lives, now looked upon the opportunity by these acts afforded them of escaping the most dreadful of deaths …

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

The purpose of the imperialists is to keep us backward, to keep us in our present miserable state so they can exploit our riches, our underground wealth, our lands and our human resources. They want us to remain afflicted and wretched, and our poor to be trapped in their misery ... they and their agents wish to go on living in huge palaces and enjoying lives of abominable luxury…. In order to assure the unity of the Islamic umma, in order to liberate the Islamic homeland from occupation and penetration by the imperialists and their puppet governments, it is imperative that we establish a government. ... we must overthrow the oppressive governments installed by the imperialists and bring into existence an Islamic government of justice ...

The most wretched have yet hope.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

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

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

We men are wretched things.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

The wretched have no friends.

I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

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

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?

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.