#wretched

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

— Lucius Accius

#fame #his #indeed #makes #man

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

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#beautiful #beautiful art #profession #wretched

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

— Andrew Carnegie

#else #money #nothing #possesses #which

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. ↗

— Beth Henley

#divorced #i #just #loved #my own

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

— Sophocles

#faring #just #just one #like #more

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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #eyes #ignorance #mislead #mortals

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

#alone #contemplate #god #him #image

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#grow up #hands #life #muddled #must