Wretched Quotes - Page 9

• It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Proud, Adam, Hated

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Complaints

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.133

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• There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Wine, Two, Church

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• America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Self, America, Improvement

  Dinesh D'Souza (2012). “What's So Great About America”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• I am inside someone
  who hates me. I look
  out from his eyes. Smell
  what fouled tunes come in
  to his breath. Love his
  wretched women.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hate, Eye, Smell

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Sorrow, Radiance

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.167, Modern Library

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• The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Blessed, Average

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• Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life.

  John Bunyan

  Son, Blood, Gifts Of The Spirit

  John Bunyan, George Offor (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan: Accurately Reprinted from the Authors Own Editions ; Wth Editorial Prefaces, Notes, and Life of Bunyan”, p.134

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• My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!

  Francis Beaumont

  Art, Forgive Me, Childhood

  Francis Beaumont (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.435

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• If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

  Ovid

  God, My Friends, Ifs

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, Acting

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• ...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Bravery, Admirable

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• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

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• If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hurt, Attitude, Unnecessary

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

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

  Euripides

  Two, Unhappiness

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Solitude, Fellow Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

  James L. Brooks

  Writing, Omnipotence, Feelings

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• There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.

  John Burroughs

  Work, People, Would Be

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• O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.393, Penguin

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• We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Heaven, World, Littles

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite from life’s wretched absurdity. The magic of love is not that it contains all the answers, it’s that it eliminates the need for so many pressing questions. For love makes us feel like gods--and that’s what we’re really after, isn’t it?

  Jonathan Hull

  Powerful, Love Is, Magic

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• 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.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Hate, Science, Men

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Study Life, Order

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Smiling Forehead”, Library of Alexandria

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• Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Song, Learning, Men

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 544

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