Wretchedness Quotes

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

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness.

My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting.

It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

The most wretched have yet hope.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

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

Church, State, and Nobility exhaust the People to such a degree, I have no Idea of the Possibility of deeper Wretchedness.

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.