Top Wretched Quotes
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Charles Mackay
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
Fridtjof Nansen 
William Hazlitt 
Ivor Novello 
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Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
Johann Arndt 
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Anthony Burgess
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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Empedocles
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen
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Popular Wretched Authors
Samuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroSamuel Butler Plato SophoclesFrancis BaconBlaise PascalWilliam HazlittEric Hoffer Aeschylus VirgilJean de la BruyereLeonardo da VinciDag Hammarskjold
Adolf HitlerTitus Maccius PlautusMikhail Bakunin TacitusThomas MoreAndrew CarnegieJohn McCainJupiter HammonMalcolm MuggeridgeIvor NovelloRalph SteadmanJosiah StrongAnthony BurgessJohn WebsterFanny Kemble
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