“ Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable. ”
- Paul Little- Copy
“ Nothing. I was miserable. I didn't wear this shirt,... I refused to wear it. ”
- John Madden- Copy
“ I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
“ I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
“ People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. ”
- Nick Cave- Copy
“ But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be — a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
“ It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
“ Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. ”
- Thomas Brackett Reed- Copy
“ A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. ”
- J. M. Coetzee- Copy
“ Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
“ Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
“ Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
“ Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ”
- Nahum Tate- Copy
“ How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. ”
- Alice James- Copy
“ How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
“ Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance… a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. ”
- William Barclay- Copy
“ Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
“ One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
“ Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
“ The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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