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.

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

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

How sick one gets of being 'good ' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Indeed wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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

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

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.