Noun
The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.
A wretched object; anything despicably.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMost 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. Seneca
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. Logan Pearsall Smith
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. Simone Weil
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. Eugène Delacroix
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. Henryk Sienkiewicz
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness. Robertson Davies