Best Woe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest evil does its work and needs no interrogation, their invectives are just a waste of time, and the world is the most sweetest to those with a functional taste buds.”

“I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..”

Sadness Sorrow Shade Woe City Inferno Danbrown

Book:Inferno

Source: Inferno

“It’s the best I have,” he said in earnest. “I know,” she whispered, not ungrateful but with woe unfeigned. “It just isn’t good enough. Not today.”

Life Quotes Sadness Depression Richelle Goodrich Richelle E Goodrich Woe

Book:Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul.”

Soul Self Awareness Woe

Book:Ajax

Source: Ajax

“Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.”

Men Living Woe Opinions

Book:Best Foot Forward

Source: Best Foot Forward

“As to everyone on whom I placed my hand, no misfortune ever befell him, because my heart was sealed and my counsel excellent. But as to any fool, any wretch, who stands up in opposition. I shall give according as he gives. “O woe,” will be said of one who is accused by me, his will take water like a boat. For I am a champion without peer! THE FIRST PART OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANKHTIFI”

Heart Fool Woe Accused Misfortune

Book:Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Lament invoked love. Woe invoked wonder. Grief invoked grace. Cry invoked celebration. (Page 80)”

Love Grief Wonder Grace Cry Celebration Woe Lament

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

Source: A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

“The woe of wrath comes to whoever does wicked acts.”

Christian Sin Wicked Woe Wickedness Wrath

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“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 'haviour 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 passes show - these but the trappings and the suits of woe.”

Death Grief Woe Hamlet Gertrude Claudius

Book:Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Teach me to feel another’s woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. (from The Universal Prayer)”

Love God Understanding Prayer Mercy Woe Fault

Author:Alexander Pope

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.”

“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.”

Past Fear Loss Sadness Sorrow Future Depression Woe Bad Mourn Dragon Complain Much Happen Assume Tendency Predict Occur Wallow Hoard Bad Habit Woes Occurence Befall Befell

Book:Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?”

Woe Antigone Sophocles

Book:Antigone

Source: Antigone

“In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.”

Problem Trouble Sadness Sorrow Difficulty Wow Distress Woe Amazing Superb Awesome Cool Wretchedness One Of A Kind Yes Try Your Best Standout Hot Damn Far Out Gosh Godzooks Golly Whoa

Author:Anthony Liccione

“The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.”

Woe Stumbling Little Ones

Book:Mary Marston

Source: Mary Marston

“Lo, [scribes] are slain, Their writings stolen, Woe is me for the grief of this time!”

Grief Woe Stolen Slain

Book:Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.”

Climate Change Woe Environmentalist Environmental Protection Climate Crisis Climate Change Denial Hoax Climate Denial Woes Of The World

Book:What Lurks Below

Source: What Lurks Below

“Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.”

Country Left Economic Painting Kings Office Sitting Shoulders Journal Woe Luther Abraham Oval

Author:Ron Fournier

“I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.”

Football Angry Mood Woe American Football Bad Mood Woe Is Me

Author:Peyton Manning

“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.”

Ifs Needs Littles Said Lasts Lying Evil Our Lives Habit Findings Longing Seeking Revelations Woe Last Words Seeking God Finding God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!”

Men Today Office Endure Lists Pens Woe Pencils Typewriters Appointments

Book:The primrose path

Source: The primrose path

“In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.”

World Would Be One Thing This World Remains Uncertainty Friendly Sugar Cream Woe Delicious Juice Tomatoes

Author:Laurie Colwin

“So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.”

“Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.”

Looks Stills Mercy Nurse Woe Pardon Measure For Measure

Book:Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.”

May Wealth Perfect Friends Pure Gold Fortune Treasure Faithful Woe Worldly Faithful Friends

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”

Mind Kind Reason Hands Winning Youth Gains Pity Fancy Woe Reins Contemplative

Book:The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

“And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.”

Shows Bears Misery Woe Midnight Mockery

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.”

Left Hours Gone Reviews Woe Brightness

Author:Euripides

“Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.”

Taught Pity Woe Fellowship Self Pity

Book:The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author

“W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.”

Knows Men World Soul Country Humanity Sides Walks Strange Range Woe

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.”

Ifs May Would Be Life Is Evil Difficult Christ Increase Aim Each Day Woe Worldly Hope And Faith Worldly Things Woe Is Me Hope In Christ

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!”

Ifs Men Art Comfort Conscience Checks Ease Faithful Friendly Woe Foe Faithful Friends

Book:George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

Source: George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

“Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.”

Should Dream Lasts Joy Grief Sadness Fairs Wounds Woe Mourn

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

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

“When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!”

Ifs War Chance Deals Risk Talent Communication Battle Determine Superiors Magazines Midst Reserves Beaten Woe Adversaries

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.”

Knows Fighting Sorrow Bravery Brave Woe Bosoms Cavalry

Author:Emily Dickinson

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

Madness Woe Gorges Invert

Author:Ishmael

“No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.”

Night Stars Beauty Sun Virtue Tears Flow Ears Blue Shining Fortune Rising Cheeks Woe Pearls Radiant Manly Gems Arches Twinkling Bright Star Twinkling Stars Radiant Beauty

Book:Containing the loves of the plants

Source: Containing the loves of the plants

“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.”

“If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?”

Ifs Love Love Is Be Good Woe

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)

“The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.”

Way Morning Rose Unhappiness Woe Morning After Jubilee

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 60: Sermons 3387-3439

“I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!”

Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

“Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought”

Mind Kind Horror Battle Bloody Woe Tournaments Measuring

Author:Willard Fiske

“Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.”

Ifs Looks Seems Lasts Death Sleep Graves Endurance Strongest Woe Foe Repose

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.”

Men Children Reason Taught Portions Creeds Woe Unlucky

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“I learn to pity woes so like my own.”

My Own Pity Woe

Book:Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

“The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.”

Dying Lovers Notes Complaining Hopeless Woe Flutes

Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

“When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”

Care Past Succeed Wave Woe

Book:Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected

Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected

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