O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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.