Zitat des Tages über Elend / Wretched:
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'
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.
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
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.
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
