(28 quotes found)
“Oh what can ail thee, wretched wight, / Alone and palely loitering; / The sedge is withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.”
John Keats
“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not”
Euripides
“Pierced in a vital spot, shrieking in concert with the birds of prey, wretched, crushed, prostrate, (the birds of prey) shall devour the enemy who attempts to hinder this oblation of ours directed against (him)!”
Atharva Veda
“There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mindless bloodshed and destruction.”
Chandrika Kumaratunga
“Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business”
Mark Twain
“True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.”
Charles Mackay
