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Quotes About Woeful

What sweet thoughts, what longing led them to the woeful pass.
~ Dante Alighieri
lo que Shakespeare llamó 'una cama afligida', o 'apesadumbrada', o 'desconsolada': 'a woeful bed
~ Javier Marías
Willful waste makes woeful want.
~ Ron Chernow
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
~ Gary Bettman
I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.
~ Nick Hornby
She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands.
~ Anne Bronte
You sure do look forlorn,
~ Barbara O'Connor
and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.
~ Stephen King
My fate, my fate as woeful as my father's, my ridiculous, heartless, funny fate.
~ Sebastian Barry
Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
~ Herman Melville
the most abject and miserable creatures I have any where beheld.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Willful waste brings woeful want.
~ Proverb
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
~ Lemony Snicket
These kids, most of them, they were really hapless." The word stopped me, and Tyrone gave me a victor's grin. "Hapless," he said. "As in, not possessing any hap.
~ Timothy Hallinan
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
~ William Shakespeare
Extremely tragic is a good description of you.
~ Osamu Dazai