Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
Aristotle
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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.
William Shakespeare
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
Love, love, love -- all the wretched can't of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
Germaine Greer
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Publilius Syrus
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.
Angela Carter
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Anthony Burgess
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Jon Anderson
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos
War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
Omar Bradley
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.
Jack Kerouac
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Larry Brown in the luckiest man in the league. He puts a wretched product on the floor night after night, watches it unravel...and then reads and hears how his record is everyone's fault but his own.
Brian O'connor
If you are a good property owner, you are at a disadvantage if someone down the road is wretched. There is an economic side as well as moral and legal.
Greg Kirschner
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, ''No'' -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.
Alexander Maclaren
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
Alec Guinness
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John Mccain
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
Fridtjof Nansen
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac Disraeli
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
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
Lester Bangs
He has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.
Brian Nelson
How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
Alice James
KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward' of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath H.
Ambrose Bierce
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Charles Mackay
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
Lucius Accius
We cannot let the wretched murderers kill our peace process.
Yossi Beilin
It is here that the masses that Frantz Fanon correctly called the wretched of the earth turn against one another not in rage, but in despair.
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate
That's why we've been so measured in our approach. Our interest is in what value we bring to market. We need to make it simple. It has to be like the phone. These connected homes have to work like that, otherwise they become somebody's wretched nightmare.
Paul Carter
We grew up with them. Two summers ago it was like the most wretched thing you could smell on a hot summer's day.
Daniel Harris
We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.
Benedict Arnold
The U.S. negotiation practices have been wretched.
Enrique Lacs
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Empedocles
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
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