“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.”
“Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song”
Catullus
“Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.”
John Webster
“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
“Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth”
Martin Luther
“Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.”
Anthony Burgess
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