(28 quotes found)
“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
“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
“How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.”
Robert Burns
“Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth”
Martin Luther
“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
“O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.”
“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
