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.)

“We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“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.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)