Wretched Quotes

Wretched Quote of the day

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

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.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.

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

Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?

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.

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

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.

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

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.

I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

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.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

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

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

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

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

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

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.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

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.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

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

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

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

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

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

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

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

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

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

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.