#wretched

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

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#keep #line #never #retreat #wretched

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#busy #character #deity #goodness #greatest

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. ↗

— Beth Henley

#divorced #i #just #loved #my own

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

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#man #sum #sum total #total #wretchedness

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #eyes #ignorance #mislead #mortals