Wretched Quotations

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.

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.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

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.

I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

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

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

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.

We grew up with them. Two summers ago it was like the most wretched thing you could smell on a hot summer's day.

With my mouth I speak slander, day and night. I spy on the houses of others - I am such a wretched low-life! Unfulfilled sexual desire and unresolved anger dwell in my body, like the outcasts who cremate the dead. I live as a wild hunter, O Creator!

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

We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

Let this iniquity be viewed in its true magnitude, and in the shocking light in which it has been set in this conversation; let the wretched case of the poor blacks be considered with proper pity and benevolence, together with the probably dreadful consequence to this land of retaining them in bondage, and all objection against liberating them would vanish.

Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

He has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.

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.

I think it is better to reduce the number of athletes in the delegation in a view to improve their ability to compete. We must take these wretched results seriously. I apologize to the Japanese people.

We must take these wretched results seriously. I apologize to the Japanese people.

We are not the kind that will surrender to them (coalition forces) just to live a wretched life for two or three years.

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

There are incentives for any state to exaggerate an external threat. If people feel insecure and have fear, they want to be protected. Even if you're living under wretched conditions, you think it is better than the alternative.

There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mindless bloodshed and destruction.

Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

That's why we've been so measured in our approach. Our interest is in what value we bring to market. We need to make it simple. It has to be like the phone. These connected homes have to work like that, otherwise they become somebody's wretched nightmare.

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

It was just a terribly botched, miserable, wretched thing, ... We've got to get to the facts.

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.

We men are wretched things.

If I had known that he was only a wretched heron from birth, I would not have touched him.

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.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

The most wretched have yet hope.

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

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

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

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

The wretched have no friends.

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

Yes! you are the ruin--the ruin--the ruin--of me. I have no resources in myself, I have no confidence in myself, I have no government of myself when you are near me or in my thoughts. And you are always in my thoughts now. I have never been quit of you since I first saw you. Oh, that was a wretched day for me! That was a wretched, miserable day!

And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.

Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, / More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. / His house was known to all the vagrant train, / He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.

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.

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

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.