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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
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
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
Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear.
— Bryant McGill
... 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
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
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
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
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 ManWhich is a proud and yet a wretched thing. — Sir John Davies
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 virginWe could plan a murder
Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison
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
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
He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
— David Sedaris
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
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
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
The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters
— Mathias Malzieu
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
— Dante Alighieri
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
