Wretched may refer to:
- Wretched (punk band)
- Wretched (doom band)
- Wretched (metal band), a death metal band from Charlotte
- "The Wretched", a song by The Word Alive from their album, Deceiver
- "The Wretched", a song by Attack Attack! from their album, "This Means War"
- The Wretched, an English translation of Les Misérables
- "The Wretched", a song by Nine Inch Nails from their album, The Fragile
- Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones, Black Veil Brides' third studio album
Famous quotes containing the word wretched:
“With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!””
—Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)
“Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)