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Wretchedness Quotes

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

Henry Highland Garnet
Slave, Wretchedness, Dies

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Oliver Goldsmith
Wretchedness, Beggary
Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.10

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Simone Weil
God, Contemplating, Wretchedness
"Attention and Will (1947)". "Gravity and Grace". Book by Simone Weil, p. 216, 1947.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

Thomas Jefferson
Giver, Wretchedness
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.319

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

Pema Chodron
Inspire, Needs, Wretchedness
Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Matt LeBlanc
Earth, Misery, Wretchedness

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

Beth Henley
Divorced, Wretchedness, My Own
"Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

Simone Weil
Sin, Humans, Wretchedness
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Mason Cooley
Success, Failure, Wretchedness

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Self, Wretchedness, Reproach
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

Christopher Pike
Pity, Wretchedness, Knows
Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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