wretchedest

The weight to be given to Schopenhauer's opinion touching any religious subject may be measured by the following quotation: "The happiest moment of life is the completest forgetfulness of self in sleep, and the wretchedest is the most wakeful and conscious."

India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861

Owing perhaps to the miseries he and Orion had just encountered, Sam had little patience with the tribe, whose members he considered “the wretchedest type of mankind I have ever seen.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Owing perhaps to the miseries he and Orion had just encountered, Sam had little patience with the tribe, whose members he considered “the wretchedest type of mankind I have ever seen.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

The raggedest nightcap, awry on the wretchedest head, had this crooked significance in it: "I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to support life in myself; but do you know how easy it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to destroy life in you?"

Archive 2008-09-01 a. fortis 2008

The raggedest nightcap, awry on the wretchedest head, had this crooked significance in it: "I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to support life in myself; but do you know how easy it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to destroy life in you?"

The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: Insufferable Happiness, Insufferable Pain tanita davis 2008

As he retraces his way to the point from which he descried the woman at a distance sitting on the step, he sees a ragged figure coming very cautiously along, crouching close to the soiled walls — which the wretchedest figure might as well avoid — and furtively thrusting a hand before it.

Bleak House 2007

Fanny was passionate with the tea – cups and the bread as long as her passion lasted, and then protested that she was the wretchedest girl in the world, and she wished she was dead.

Little Dorrit 2007

The taunt of his shrill clarion remained without answer; and the sun went down upon the wretchedest father and daughter in all the land of Christendom.

Burlesques 2006

An exchange of livings had been arranged with an acquaintance who was incumbent of a church in the south of London, and as soon as possible the couple removed thither, abandoning their pretty country home, with trees and shrubs and glebe, for a narrow, dusty house in a long, straight street, and their fine peal of bells for the wretchedest one-tongued clangour that ever tortured mortal ears.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The taunt of his shrill clarion remained without answer; and the sun went down upon the wretchedest father and daughter in all the land of Christendom.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006