Quotes About Woe

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, -- believe the aged friend -- Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

serenely revelled in dalliance and delight. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. Meanwhile

But war is pain, and hate is woe.

moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.

man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Wild and cruel case, youth ever thinks; but mistakenly; for Experience well knows, that action, though it seems an aggravation of woe, is really an alleviative; though permanently to alleviate pain, we must first dart some added pangs.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

For of all creatures that breathe and creep about on the earth, there is none so miserable as man.

We men are wretched things

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

MATTHEW 18:5-7 "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

You're no mystery, But just plain MISERY.

This is theatre, not the work-a-day world where people are mean spirited and drag themselves about with "marks of woe".

Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.

Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walküre

Americans' unconfined conception of presidential responsibility is the source of much of our political woe and some of the gravest threats to our liberties.

This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,And we been pilgrymes, passing to and fro.Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.

O Miss Bailey!Unfortunate Miss Bailey!

It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.

The cholerick man never wants woe.