Wretched Quotes - Page 6

• An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fall, Identity, Stranger

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• Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Religious, Insight

  Russell Kirk (1986). “The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• It struck me that many Christians flash around their 'no trans fat' label, trying to convince everyone they are healthy and good. Yet they have no substantive or healthful elements to their faith. It's like the Laodiceans, who thought they had everything until Christ told them they were poor and wretched.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Healthy, Trying

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.93, David C Cook

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• Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

  Paul Washer

  Son, Men, Blood

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• I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Daughter, Father, Son

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

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• I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Education, Boots, University

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• The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Men, Sorrow

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• Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Way, Study

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

  Isaac Barrow

  Science, Accomplished, Mathematician

  Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.32

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• 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.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Heart, Men, Inspire

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Iron, Soul, Wire

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• Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Growth, Doe

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

  Jon Anderson

  Christmas, Perfectly Good, Shopping

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• My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Spring, Garden

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.66, Penguin

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• What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Fame

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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

  Juvenal

  Fame

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VIII, line 76, 1890.

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• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Bravery

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

  George Eliot

  Cute, Friendship, Faith

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.134, 谷月社

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• All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Taken, Men, Race

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• Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Clever, Lying, Rise To Power

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• He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Age, Who Cares, Youth

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• Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Kindness, Men

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Age

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [275]

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• Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

  Homer

  Men, Earth, Breathe

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• I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Gone, Awful

  Quoted in Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett (1978)

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