Wretched

Famous quotes containing the word wretched:

“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“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 (1848–1892)

“Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,
I watched that wretched man,
And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)