Jan Karon

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

American Writer

Jupiter Hammon

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

American Poet

Roger Scruton

My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting.

English Philosopher

David Simon

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

American Author

Aeschylus

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Greek Poet

Ralph Steadman

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

British Cartoonist

Samuel Johnson

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

English Writer

Carolyn See

You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Italian Artist

Anthony Burgess

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

English Novelist

Used to evoke pity or sympathy towards someone suffering.

Compassion Trigger

Highlights severe unhappiness, sickness, or poverty, not mild forms.

Extreme States

Often used in stories to draw attention to a character's plight.

Narrative Emphasis

Expresses strong disapproval of someone's character or actions.

Moral Judgment

Conveys disdain and contempt, more than a neutral description.

Harsh Label

Historically rich term, be mindful of its use in modern settings.

Historical Usage

Portrays a person as subject to misfortune through no fault of their own.

Victim Perspective

Aims to evoke a sense of sorrow and empathy from the audience.

Pathos Appeal

 Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really, going on about how amazing everyone in the household is, or even more scintillating, how busy everyone in the household is. But these letters serve a purpose, which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year. So this year's kind of done,

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 a fact we were unaware of, until after the miserable wretches turned beneath the hooves of our cavalcade. The eyeless sockets of the pack animals everywhere account for the myriads of ravens along the road. The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone,

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 that there's no way for it to metastasize; it does. She was eight years old, our first day of grade three when she got called ugly. We both got moved to the back of class so we would stop getting bombarded by spitballs. But the school halls were a battleground. We found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day.

"To This Day" ... for...

 and use it in your everyday life. So just, you know, imagine waking up in the morning. I'm sure you've had this experience. I know I have. You wake up and as you're emerging into consciousness, you feel this horrible dread, you know, this real wretchedness,

You aren't at the mercy...

 Buffeted by hostile winds, the wretched crew washed up on the island of Circe the sorceress. Medea begged her aunt to absolve them of wrongdoing— but bloody deeds are not so easily forgotten, and fallen heroes not so rapidly redeemed.

The myth of Jason,...

 the head of the family leads them to the edge of their territory in search of something to eat the only food here is wretchedly um nourishing bark moss and lichen there's hardly enough to sustain one monkey let alone a family

Snow Monkey Families In...

 so wretched what do i inherit after centuries of subjugation he tells himself I know this earth knows my name but she has not called me for lifetimes what do i inherit from that history I don't blame him but I know that this

Building a city for the...

 and wretched animals on the area something is literally draining the life out of them it is the winter tick as full and bloated as its host is starving it's estimated that ticks can drain a moose calf of half its blood

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 invasion is underway staff at hotels watch nervously for a food that is putrid wretched and loved by millions meet the durian fruit their smell is hard to describe

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 you know there's another sort of feeling you get and I just remember seeing that that wretched stand and so I approached the wood and I'm resound and grabbed and