#wretched

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. ↗

— Tacitus

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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

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Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ↗

— Lucius Accius

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There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. ↗

— William Bligh

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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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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

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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

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