#wretch

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#man #sum #sum total #total #wretchedness

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#life #life is a #lived #saturday #through

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #eyes #ignorance #mislead #mortals

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ↗

— Virgil

#better #now #perhaps #times #us

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. ↗

— John Webster

#men #most #often #valued #wretched

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#alone #contemplate #god #him #image

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#grow up #hands #life #muddled #must

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#how #little #little time #live #matter

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#completely #few #hope #low #none

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#extremely #heaven #hell #life #make