Mythological subjects always new.
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. Eugene Delacroix
Wretchedness
How evil life must
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven! Emile Zola
To those human beings
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished. Friedrich Nietzsche
… I cannot think
… I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day. Freya Stark
Nothing marks so much
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one’s wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement. Francois Fenelon
When forced to leave
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough … Read more
The purpose of the
The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness. Dante Alighieri
The law showeth unto
The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ. Daniel Cawdry
It is indeed strange
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness … Read more
Yet, ironically, it is
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I don’t know what to do! Christopher Pike