"Oh, when Helene speaks to me, I wish that her voice were different, when she looks into my face I wish that she had other eyes. She constantly keeps me in mind of all that should have been and is not. I cannot bear to have her near me. I smile at her, I try to make up to her for the real affection of which she is defrauded. I am wretched, monsieur, too wretched to live. And I am supposed to be a pattern wife. And I have committed no sins. And I am respected!英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"If you think so badly of him, tell him, then, and let him go. Oh, I am wretched--I am wretched!" She lifted her hands in despair, and began to cry and sob bitterly.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
A blue-bottle chose that moment to come buzzing round him with a sort of fury; the sound was homely, better than nothing.... Where had the boy gone to read his letter? The wretched letter--the wretched story! A cruel business--cruel to her--to Soames--to those two children--to himself!... His heart thumped and pained him. Life--its loves--its work--its beauty--its aching, and--its end! A good time; a fine time in spite of all; until--you regretted that you had ever been born. Life--it wore you down, yet did not make you want to die--that was the cunning evil!英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
"No woman ever took that fatal step yet, without its entailing on her the most dire wretchedness," she replied. "It cannot be otherwise. And Lady Isabel was of a nature to feel remorse beyond common--to meet it half-way. Refined, modest, with every feeling of an English gentlewoman, she was the very last, one would have thought, to act so. It was as if she had gone away in a dream, not knowing what she was doing; I have thought so many a time. That terrible mental wretchedness and remorse did overtake her, I know."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
I have lived a very nasty, horrible life, and now God is punishing me as I deserve. I live so wretchedly, so wretchedly .英文原著 · 《Father Sergius》
Were you not saying just now that he is wretched? Yes, my friend, if he killed another unjustly, in which case he is also to be pitied; and he is not to be envied if he killed him justly. At any rate you will allow that he who is unjustly put to death is wretched, and to be pitied? Not so much, Polus, as he who kills him, and not so much as he who is justly killed. How can that be, Socrates? That may very well be, inasmuch as doing injustice is the greatest of evils. But is it the greatest? Is not suffering injustice a greater evil?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
Dear Lord, I thank you for this bland, indifferently prepared meal, and beseech you to ignite some spark of compassion in my cold-hearted daughter-in-law, that she might show some shred of mercy to me, her wretched captive.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》