Wretched

Famous quotes containing the word wretched:

“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)

“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)

“Think what a mean and wretched place this world is; that half the time we have to light a lamp that we may see to live in it. This is half our life. Who would undertake the enterprise if it were all?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)