“Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song”
Catullus
“I don't know what it like to raise a kid but even so, I want to believe that kids out there should be taught not to know what is right or wrong, rather to think and do what is right and what is wrong.”
J C A Rowe
“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”
Voltaire
“He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.”
William Shakespeare
“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.”
“Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.”
Anthony Burgess
“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
