| "It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery." »Publilius Syrus |
| "I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched." »Virgil |
| "Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life." »Yiddish Proverb |
| "Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt." »Titus Maccius Plautus |
| "To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth." »Louis Celine |
| "That wretched alchemist called money can turn a mans heart into a stone!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near." »Samuel Hoffenstein |
| "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." »Marie Dressler |
| "A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain." »William Shakespeare |
| "Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)" »Lucius Accius Telephus |
| "Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings." »Homer |
| "It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals." »Homer |
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