Wretched
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
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Wretched Quotations
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
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
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Aeschylus
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Plautus
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Sophocles
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
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wretched Translations
wretched in Dutch is belabberd, ellendig, miserabel
wretched in German is elend
wretched in Hungarian is boldogtalan, nyamvadt
wretched in Latin is miserabilis, miser
wretched in Spanish is infeliz
wretched in Swedish is usel, olycklig, miserabel
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