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Quotes About Woe

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.
~ Peter Mayle
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
~ James Beattie
For wide, ah! wide is the woe when the foeman has mounted the wall; There is havoc and terror and flame, and the dark smoke broods over all, And wild is the war-god's breath, as in frenzy of conquest he springs, And pollutes with the blast of his lips the glory of holiest things!
~ Aeschylus
Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare! For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!
~ Aeschylus
Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow!
~ Aeschylus
Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please. --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.
~ Juliet Marillier
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.
~ Peter Weiss
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
~ Edward Young
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
~ Franz Grillparzer
It really expresses a man in pain.
~ Mark Hoppus
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
~ Publius Attius Varus
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
~ Homer
Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.
~ George Herbert
The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
~ Emily Dickinson
The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.
~ Isabella Beeton
By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.
~ Richard Savage
…and there, in the background, the sky's sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words 'I am' dissolved into blue peace. He said it. 'The ocean.
~ David Mitchell
Man was made for joy and woe,And when this we rightly knowThrough the world we safely go.
~ William Blake
Like a fiend in a cloud,With howling woe,After night I do crowd,And with night will go.
~ William Blake
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."Luke 11:52
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?
~ William Shakespeare
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
~ Edward Young
hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young
~ E.E. Cummings