Best grief & woe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle

“Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.”

Care Grief Sorrow Comfort Draws Woe

Book:The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq

Source: The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq

“Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.”

Humanity Grief Emotion Share Despair Waste Lays Attributes Worn Woe Ecstatic

Book:The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

“Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.”

Giving Light Form Grief Objects Color All Things Fantastic Woe Sustenance

Book:The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.”

Sometimes Would Be Pain Pleasure Grief Share Conversation Silent Satisfaction Sympathy Participation Woe Diminish

Author:William Wycherley

“Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.”

Soul Grief Blessed Woe Embryos

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?”

Ifs World Grief This World Woe Good Will

Book:The works of Shakespeare

Source: The works of Shakespeare

“Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.”

Should Ends Christian Pain Suffering Views Grief Sun Forever Sorrow Blessing Clouds Righteousness Showers Affliction Woe Pain And Suffering Dismayed

Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.”

Men Love Soul Ends Age Grief Company Eternal Capacity Creator Your Soul Loved Ones Sane Woe Drowning Voyages

Author:David Mitchell

“If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!”

Ifs Knows World Firsts Believe Persons Earth Universe Pleasure Grief This World Please Let Me Misery Almighty Woe Diseased Omniscient Nero

Author:Bhagat Singh

“Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.”

Knows Feelings Life Is Joy Suffering Three Enjoy Born Grief Sorrow Eternal Bliss Woe Three Times Joy Of Life Duration

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”

“Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”

Knows Men Play Shows Seems Might Eye Action Together Form Mother Black Grief Shapes Rivers Breaths Mood Suits Woe Not Alone Solemn Cloaks Windy Good Mother Dejected

Author:William Shakespeare

“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”

Grief Complaining Woe

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 3: The Eternal Quest

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 3: The Eternal Quest

“Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.”

Source: Lord Foul's Bane

“Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.”

Years Heart Littles I Can Night Turns Grief Gone Sea My Heart Sorrow Shapes Singing Bird Mercy Dear Bitter Staring Silver Pens Spells Weary Leafs Woe Shifting Wraps Cords Loveliness Racks

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!”

Feels Kind Children Mother Fall Father Grief Share Tears Sorrow Filled Relief Woe Infant

Author:William Blake

“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”

Men Feels Humor Fighting Grows Effort Grief Conditions Youth Bounds Burden Strikes Shoulders Sparks Swings Manhood Woe Mirth Pendulums

Book:Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain

Source: Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain

“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”

Light Care Speak Grief Silence Strive Dumb Woe

Book:Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc

Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc

“They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.”

Feels Grief Fame Heal Boredom Breasts Bores Woe Exile

Author:William Edmondstoune Aytoun

“Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.”

Life Inspirational Soul Running Joy Grief Divine Inspirational Life Fine Gratitude Clothings Woe Woven

Book:Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

“The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.”

Heart Pleasure Grief Comfort Scene Flow Weight Exciting Impulse Thrown Bows Woe Pathways

Author:Alfred Bunn

“We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Humans Made Hard Enough Human Beings Grief Our Lives Alive Discipline Accounts Insight Myth Weather Yield Woe Inexplicable Seizures

Author:May Sarton

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