Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
- Matt LeBlancThis dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.
- Angela CarterIt is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Adam KatzIf a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.
- James Allen