Wretchedness

Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs, and doomed him to waste in wretchedness! ❋ Unknown (2010)

They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What was it specially that he called wretchedness? ❋ Eliza Orzeszkowa (1876)

I shall not close this, till I have seen or heard from the vile miscreant who has involved a worthy family in wretchedness! ❋ Unknown (1797)

It is of course self-evident that poverty should not degenerate into wretchedness, which is no less an abundant source of moral dangers than is excessive wealth. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

How many old labourers, old operatives, or miners are now left to recall the wretchedness of that toiling and starving childhood before the corn-tax was removed? ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)

By such an estimate, nearly the whole number are accounted for by wretchedness, that is by economic causes, alone ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

My first knowledge of their wretchedness was a thing which sank deep. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)

Nor will their wretchedness, which is the work of their own hands, disturb our peace or mar our happiness. ❋ F. J. Boudreaux (1857)

Alas! alas! that in all my misery the only woman who sympathises with my wretchedness is the woman I have injured. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. ❋ Unknown (1838)

In every wealthy nation, the rich shun the view of wretchedness, which is attended with a silent reproach. ❋ William Playfair (1791)

What added to my wretchedness was the loss of my little infant: not that I pretend to have had for it that extravagant tenderness of which I believe I might have been capable under other circumstances; but I resolved, in every instance, to discharge the duty of the tenderest mother; and this care prevented me from feeling the weight of that heaviest of all things, when it can be at all said to lie heavy on our hands. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Free institutions are taking the place of feudal oppressions -- education is pouring its light on minds hitherto enveloped in all the darkness of ignorance -- the whole system of slavery, both personal and political, is undermined by public opinion, and must soon be prostrated; and the signs of the times assure us that the enormous mass of crime and wretchedness, which is the fruit of drunkenness, will, at no very remote period, disappear from the earth. ❋ Joseph Sturge (1826)

We have had our bellyful of a species of wretchedness which is thoroughly pleased with itself. ❋ Unknown (2005)