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wretched
«This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Dancing,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
clowns, dance of death, wretched, wretchedness
«They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.»
«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.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Hell,
Paradise,
Propaganda
| Keywords:
application, clever, constant, paradise, propaganda, round, wretched
«This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
at random, glimpse, random, wreck, wretched
«Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road»
«There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
arctic, bind, brim, brimming, brims, cheap, fills, In Search Of, LED, literature, melts, motionless, races, spin, spins, spin out, spun, stir, stranded, strands, The Arctic, The Question, The Strand, wretched
«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.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
amuse, amuses, ball, billiard, billiards, frivolous, hitting, hit man, playing, reasons, such as, sufficient, thus, weariness, weary, wretched
«O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.»
«Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunesAre made thy chief afflictions.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
afflictions, chief, fortunes, wretched
