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Quotes About Woes

What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?
~ Sophocles
To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul.
~ Sophocles
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.
~ Robert Love
When Ascyltes, loaded down with all these woes, was falling asleep, the maid he had rejected and insulted rubbed the whole of his face with a generous quantity of ash. He felt nothing, and she went on to paint graffiti-style penises on his shoulders and sides.
~ Sarah Ruden
Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him. —Psalm 32:10
~ Sarah Young
Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.
~ Brady Corbet
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~ Khalil Gibran
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
~ Virgil
The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
~ Samuel Daniel
Actors, who relate their woes in many clever sentences and with much waving of hands and rolling of eyes—they should be made to ride in the cars for passengers with heavy loads, to learn that a slightly bent hand can hold in it the misery of all time, and that the quiver of an eyelid can be more moving than a whole evening full of crocodile tears.
~ Joseph Roth
Those who want to blame all of Enron's woes on the greedy former CFO claim that Enron was a good business brought down by Andy Fastow. But that was never true. Ultimately, Enron was a bad business that was, for a time, propped up by Andy Fastow.
~ Bethany McLean
She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life.
~ Shirley Hazzard
If Saturn's son, and changeful Fate, assigned A double life-time to our mortal kind, That one in joys and one in woes be past, Who had his woes first would have joys at last.
~ BION
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
~ Bram Stoker
Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he makes them all dance to the tune he play.
~ Bram Stoker
The man had come looking for a magical solution to his woes, but he had found an answer much more simple. Pain lost its power when other things became more important.
~ Brandon Sanderson
These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, We are the Witnesses!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life...
~ Stephen Schwartz
How ironic that the cultures our modern world has marginalized are the very cultures with the wisdom to heal our modern woes.
~ Bruce D. Perry
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes, he who loves no one has no woes.
~ Buddha
Eternally inexorable and unconcerned is Fate, a mere heartless trader in men's joys and woes.
~ Herman Melville
For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate.
~ Homer