#wretch

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. ↗

— Sophocles

#faring #just #just one #like #more

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

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#child #ills #love #man #suffers

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. ↗

— Thomas Sprat

#great #life #married #married life #negligence

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#happy #i #king #me #perhaps

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#happy #ill #maketh #mind #poor

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#during #economic #economically #federal #generates

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#entirely #happy #loved #make #seeks

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#duty #good #only #principles #strong