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Letter "W" » wretchedness
«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
«A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles»
Author: Thomas Sprat
| Keywords:
embitter, embittered, embitters, negligence, originated, trifles, wretchedness
«It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.»
«Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
come back, contemplation, data, experiment, Human Relations, impenetrable, inexplicable, in relation to, opacity, relation, relation to, wretchedness
«They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admitting, afford, consolation, increase, reflection, resolved, seeking, wholly, wretchedness
«Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.»
«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.»
«Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
isolation, sum, sum total, to a man, wretchedness
«The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
giver, givers, life-giving, The Giver, wretchedness
«O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!»
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