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


Blaise Pascal


#great #greatness #himself #itself #know

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.


Terry Pratchett


#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

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


Samuel Johnson


#duty #good #only #principles #strong

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.


David Sedaris


#books #i #like #lives #nonfiction

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.


Logan P. Smith


#being rich #live #people #rich #rich people

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


Ralph Steadman


#desperately #how #just #makes #me

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

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.


John Major


#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.


Empedocles


#beliefs #dark #divine #gained #gods