#wretched

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

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 old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#gone #heart #her #indolent #inspire

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ↗

— John McCain

#could #cruel #description #fool #fraud

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. ↗

— Thomas More

#brain #driven #gave #glimpse #heaven

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

— Samuel Johnson

#duty #good #only #principles #strong

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#city #condition #does #growth #increase

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

#bored #darling #dear #dejected #feel

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#english #haunted #holds #i #jokes