Wretched Quotes

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.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

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.

We are not the kind that will surrender to them (coalition forces) just to live a wretched life for two or three years.

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.

We cannot let the wretched murderers kill our peace process.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.

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.

Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song.

There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mindless bloodshed and destruction.

We grew up with them. Two summers ago it was like the most wretched thing you could smell on a hot summer's day.

The wretched war had destroyed not only their country but all their presumptions of human self-regard. What a scant, foolish pretense was a family, a culture, a place in history, when it was all so easily defamed. And God was behind this.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant 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.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.