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• From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Ignorance, Comfort

  Samuel Johnson (1805). “A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar”, p.692

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• Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Life, Evil, Sorrow

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.27

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• O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Black, States

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.327

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• Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Marriage, Couple, Unhappy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.32

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• It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

  Ralph Steadman

  Our World, World, Witness

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• The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Country, People, World

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Misery, Companion, Consolation

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 995, 1856.

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• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  Albert Camus

  Blood, Color, Smell

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.189, Vintage

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• Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

  Warsan Shire

  Hurt, Making Love, Secret

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• Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Liberty, Slavery, May

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• Day, night, late, early,
  At home, abroad, alone, in company,
  Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been
  To have her match'd; and having now provided
  A gentleman of princely parentage,
  Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
  Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
  Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man-
  And then to have a wretched puling fool,
  A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
  To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love;
  I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184

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• Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

  Kevin Myers

  Doe, Masters, Brian

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• The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Art, Fire, Sand

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• The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, School, People

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• The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and know when I go back to the front line that the war will sink down, be drowned utterly in the great home-coming tide, know that it will then be past for ever, and not gnaw us continually, that it will have none but an outward power over us...Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself. And at the same time I fear to importune it too much, because I do not know what might happen then. I am a soldier, I must cling to that.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Home, Past

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

  Honore de Balzac

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• Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Love Is, Punishment

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• Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Life Is, Glorious

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• Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.

  Earnest Hooton

  Hands, Data, Historical

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• I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

  Bob Dylan

  Soul, Hungry, Restless

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• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Here I Am

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.31, Bantam Classics

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• It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Nice, Color, Play

  "New Again: Sigourney Weaver". Interview with Christopher Durang, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2012.

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• It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

  Richard Baxter

  Lying, Flames, Laughing

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”

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• The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

  Cyprian

  Fire, Body, Hell

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• 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.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pride, Charity, Faults

  Oliver Goldsmith (1867). “The Poetical Works”, p.58

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