Wretched Quotes - Page 11

• It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

  Martial

  Real, Adversity, Fortitude

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• An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

  Albert Camus

  Feelings, May, Intense

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• What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.

  Alastair Campbell

  Jobs, Independent, Cutting

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

  John Shelby Spong

  Miserable, Mets

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Suicidal, Essence, Musical

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• It seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence an excitable body which a sudden change can throw from the best into the worst state. Patience I must now choose for my guide, and I have done so. Divine One, thou lookest into my inmost soul, thou knowest it, thou knowest that love of man and desire to do good live therein.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Men, Soul, Desire

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• The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Sleep, Order

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• If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Heart, Soul, Ears

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.31, Anamchara Books

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

  George Lucas

  Obi Wan Kenobi, Scum, Dark Side

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.

  Terry Pratchett

  Treasure, Opponents, Triumph

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• Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  School, Holiday, Mean

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• My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Angel, Opposites

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• A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.

  Hugh Dalton

  Littles, Results, Mice

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• People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who understand what I do appreciate the determination, love, and courage it takes to find wonder and beauty in people who are considered by society to be damaged, unclean, dysfunctional, or wretched.

  Joel-Peter Witkin

  Determination, Hate, Thinking

  Germano Celant, Joel-Peter Witkin (1995). “Witkin”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

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• It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Light, Doubt

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• Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, America, Brooklyn

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion. It's not one you look for. You don't want this kind of compassion; it just happens.

  Caroline Myss

  Compassion, Looks, Want

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.45

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, Acting

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

  James Cook

  Reality, People, Earth

  James Cook (1897). “Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World”

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• I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good... I hope things will improve eventually; as it is, I am pretty wretched.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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• Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.

  Walter Hilton

  Spiritual, Humility, Reality

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• The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

  Philip Slater

  Politics, Our Society, Riches

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

  John Milton

  Poetry, Age, Ornaments

  "Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.

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