W Quotes
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“Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.”
“Woe to the conquered.”
Source: The history of Rome
“Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.”
“Woe to the deer who is courted by the charismatic wolf, or to the fly who is not immune to the sweet, sultry songs of the spider.”
Source: Bleeds My Desire
“Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!”
“Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!”
Source: Home of the Gentry
“Woe to the house where there is no chiding.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25”
“Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.”
“Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!”
“Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!”
Source: Adolphe
“Woe to the man who offends a small child!”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.”
“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.”
Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.”
Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“Woe to the nation that receives her conquerors beating the drums. Woe to the nation that hates oppression in her sleep and accepts it in her awakening. Woe to the nation that raises that voice only behind a coffin and prides itself only in the cemetery. Woe to a nation that does not revolt until her neck is placed on the scaffold.”
Source: The Wisdom of Gibran: Aphorisms and Maxims
“Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.”
“Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation!”
“Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shal lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when they shall cry out for mercy, yea, for one drop of water, and God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when non in heaven or earth can help them but God, and hell shall rejoice over them in their calamity(244)?”
Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest
“Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.”
“Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.”
“Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.”
Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
“Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me!
Though I wished to redeem them,
they spoke lies against me.
They have not cried to me from their hearts
when they wailed upon their beds;
For wheat and wine they lacerated themselves;
they rebelled against me.”
Source: The Catholic Study Bible
“Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Woe to those that mock or hurt us, protected as we are, and almost consecrated from human injuries, by the ordinances and favour of the Deity; and involved in darkness, not so much from the imperfection of our optic powers, as from the shadow of the creator's wings - a darkness, which he frequently irradiates with an inner and far superior light!”
Source: Second Defense of the People of England
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil...who put darkness for light and light for darkness...who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight." Issiah 5:20,21”
Source: In The Eye Of Deception: A True Story
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
“Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.”
“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”
“Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.”
“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.”
“Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.”
“Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!”
“Woe to who sells his companion for own personal benefit or tramples on him.”
“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”
“Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.”
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.”
Source: Cocaine papers
“Woe unto all who have walked by the water but not gotten wet, for the sea of tears is now dry, and all who try to fill their bowls will know thirst.”
Source: Ezekiel's Eyes
“Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.”
Source: The Intellectual Life
“Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.”
Source: Darkness at noon
“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.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.”
Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners
“Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.”
Source: Best Foot Forward
“Woe unto you who killed or were killed over BlackBerry’s phone. Have you seen the Samsung Z Fold 7? Even that will become history a few years from today, August 31, 2025. Mark this day.”
“Woe was a reciprocal thing. The more you inflicted upon others, the more you gathered.”
Source: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #253
“Woe! We are shipwrecked by fate, we are driven before the storm! (Latinus)”
Source: The Aeneid
“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”
“Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead.
Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking