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Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity! — Spencer W. Kimball

The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted. — Alexandre Dumas

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy. — William Hazlitt

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel De Montaigne

Christ," the Colonel said quite loudly. "That wretched beast, drama, draws nigh. — John Green

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion. — Emile Capouya

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. — Dag Hammarskjold

America's infrastructure is now so wretched that, in some areas, the only people who drive straight are the drunks. — Anonymous

The wretched have no friends. — John Dryden

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. — Seneca The Younger

The colonized, underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term. Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige. — John Jackson Miller

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. — Lord Chesterfield

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men. — Karen Maitland

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. — Samuel Hoffenstein

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain. — Gautama Buddha

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched. — Paulo Coelho

Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear. — Bryant McGill

If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even. Somebody--I — Oscar Wilde

... Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched. — Jane Austen

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. — Sophocles

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus. — J.C. Ryle

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. — William Hazlitt

Wretched set of incompetent noodles. — Adam Hochschild

Fear drives the wretched to prayer — Seneca The Younger

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be. — Brian Aldiss

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. — Eric Hoffer

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. — Ammianus Marcellinus

The kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched - he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him. — George Eliot

How could I ever have loved that wretched creature? — George R R Martin

It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain. — Publilius Syrus

Nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. — Seneca The Younger

If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know. — R.D. Laing

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. — Nahum Tate

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please. — Martial

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

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors. — Jonathan Galassi

I know myself a Man
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing. — Sir John Davies

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education. — Russell Kirk

it means nothing to me if he loves you if he can't do a single wretched thing about it — Rupi Kaur

That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man's heart into a stone! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. — Virgil

Even in the most wretched life, there's hope. — Michelle Moran

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

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. — Milorad Pavic

Youth was often wretched, the struggle to become themselves tore the young to shreds, but sometimes, after the struggle, better days began. — Salman Rushdie

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. — John Webster

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds! — Gustave Flaubert

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

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

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

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure. — Victor Hugo

The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. — Thornton Wilder

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. — John Major

Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

He felt wretched at this point, he'd just told off Gandalf essentially, and Dumbledore's kindness was only making him feel worse. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin. — Juvenal

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

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

then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I — Naomi Novik

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel. — Cyril Connolly

all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men. — Patrick O'Brian

Who might you be?" she demanded. "A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony? — Pawan Mishra

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. — Steven Pinker

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

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. — Seneca The Younger

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. — Lord Byron

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. — David Sedaris

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched. — Ovid

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

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. — Omar N. Bradley

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

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.
A Prologue to Love — Taylor Caldwell

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. — Plato

The loss of the ball - the loss of the young man - and all that the young man might be feeling! - It was too wretched! — Jane Austen

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

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. — Edwin Land

(about Ivy) She was good at rescuing things and wretched at doing anything about it afterward. — Kate Avery Ellison

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus. — Gautama Buddha

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things. — Paul Auster

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves." Harriet — Jane Austen

A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them. — Hugh Dalton

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters — Mathias Malzieu

Money is life to us wretched mortals. — Hesiod

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! — Dante Alighieri

Never has there been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,' — Steve McHugh

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company. — Abraham Cowley

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted — Aharon Appelfeld

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. — Augusto Roa Bastos

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. — George MacDonald

Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens. — Ruskin Bond

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

But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. — Albert Camus