Woe Quotes:

topic: Woe, Succeed

Long exercised in woes.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

topic: Long, Woe

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

topic: Evil, Looks, Woe

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

topic: Fate, Toil, Woe

- Ishmael

topic: Woe, Madness, Gorges, Invert

Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

- James Thomson

source: James Thomson (2011). “The City of Dreadful Night”, p.51, The Floating Press

topic: Woe, Depth, Unrest, Quails

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

- James Anthony Froude

topic: Children, Men, Woe

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

- Jamie Sams

topic: Laughing, World, Woe, Belly Laughs

Everything on earth has happened before, nothing is new, but woe to the lovers who fail to discover a fresh blossom in every future kiss.

- Jaroslav Seifert

source: Jaroslav Seifert, Ewald Osers, George Gibian (1998). “The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert”, p.89, Catbird Press

topic: Kissing, Earth, Woe

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

- Jedediah Berry

topic: Opponents, Woe, Lasts, Checkmate

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

- Jeff Beck

source: FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Apr 13, 2017

topic: Trying, Woe, Privacy

Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

- Jesse Helms

topic: Believe, Lines, Woe, Bologna

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

- Joan D. Vinge

topic: Worry, Age, Woe

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

topic: Memories, Believe, Woe, Engraved

- John Carroll

topic: Responsibility, Evil, Woe, Dismissal, Bourgeois

I am the self-consumer of my woes,

- John Clare

source: 'I Am' (1848)

topic: Self, Woe, Consumers

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

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

topic: Dying, Complaining, Woe

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

topic: Sight, Decay, Woe

Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.

topic: Shadow, World, Woe, Harbinger

- Jon Hendricks

topic: Woe, Jazz, Trouble

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.

- Joseph Alleine

source: Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.170

topic: Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Woe, Woe Unto

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

- Julian of Norwich

topic: Woe, Goodness, Goodness Of God

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

- Juliet Marillier

topic: Baby, Woe, Different, Shuddering, Sobbing

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

- Luigi Pirandello

source: Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.36, Luigi Pirandello

topic: Kings, Woe, Pope

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

- Luke the Evangelist

topic: Jesus, Men, Woe, Woe Unto

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

topic: Joy, Woe, Bitter

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

- Niklaus Wirth

topic: Engineering, Woe, Tools, Software Engineering

The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

- Ole Hallesby

source: Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

topic: Prayer, Pouring, Woe, Supplication, Lutherans

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

- Oliver Goldsmith

topic: Individuality, Woe, Goodness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: World, Woe, Enough

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

- Petrarch

topic: Littles, Woe, Bliss

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

- Petrarch

topic: Heart, Earth, Woe

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.

- Peyton Manning

topic: Football, Bad Mood, Woe, Woe Is Me

They saw their injured country's woe.

- Philip Freneau

source: Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

topic: Country, Memorial Day, Woe, Memorial Day Poems, Memorial Day Remembrance

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

source: Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324

topic: Solitude, Bears, Woe, Woe Unto

Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.

- Phoebe Cary

topic: Heart, Care, Woe

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

- Raymond Chandler

topic: Death, Littles, Woe

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

- Richard Savage

topic: Soul, Woe, Action

There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

- Richelle Mead

topic: Missing, Looks, Woe

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

- Rick Majerus

topic: Reality, Issues, Woe, Woe Is Me, Pleasant Things

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

- Robbie Williams

topic: Woe, Flu, Life Is, Woe Is Me

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

- Robert Herrick

topic: Past, Woe, Succeed

Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

- Robert Pollok

source: Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288

topic: Dark, Woe, And Love

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?

- Sam Walter Foss

topic: Men, Woe, World

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

- Samuel Daniel

source: Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.105

topic: Love, Cutting, Woe

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

- Samuel Daniel

topic: Love Is, Woe, Sickness

The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

- Sheherazade Goldsmith

topic: Environmental, Woe, Energy, Energy Consumption

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

- Sherwood Boehlert

topic: Government, Democracy, Woe, Collective Action, Market Failure

Slobodan MiloÅ¡evi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.

- Slobodan Milosević

topic: Division, World, Woe

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.

- Thomas Gray

topic: Woe, Hue, Bliss

Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

- Thomas Gray

topic: Views, Hue, Woe

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

- Thomas Gray

topic: Laughter, Laughing, Woe, Moody

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

- Thomas Kyd

topic: Tragedy, Ease, Woe

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

- Vernon Howard

topic: World, Woe, Causes

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.

- Vespasian

topic: Thinking, Dying, Woe, Woe Is Me

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Woe, Carrying On, Saws

It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

- Vincent de Paul

topic: Faith, Running, Woe

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Looks, May, Woe, Work Done, Draught

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Women, Race, Woe

I was not always a man of woe.

- Walter Scott

topic: Men, Woe

Too young for woe, though not for tears.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Woe, Youth

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

- Will Durant

topic: Education, Men, Woe

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

- Willard Fiske

topic: Mind, Battle, Woe

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

- William Blake

topic: Tears, Woe, Wipe, Timeliness

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

- William Edmondstoune Aytoun

source: 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.

topic: Grief, Woe, Fame

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

- William Rounseville Alger

topic: Woe, Grind, Retribution

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

It would have been inconceivable that Eva [Braun] would ever have criticized [Adolf Hitler] to me. To his face? Yes, she would, but to me or anybody in our family? Never. And woe to anybody who dared criticize him to her.

topic: Woe, Ruins, Decay

- Gretl Braun

topic: Woe, Faces, Criticize

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

- Brady Corbet

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Careers, Television, Woe

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

- William Falconer

source: William Falconer (1807). “The shipwreck, by W. Falconer, with a sketch of his life”, p.8

topic: Giving, Memorial, Woe

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

- Sophocles

source: Sophocles (1849). “The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr”, p.303

topic: Looks, Woe, Danger

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

- Fernando Pessoa

source: Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

topic: Men, Tragedy, Woe

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

- Adam Clarke

source: Adam Clarke (1837). “The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments”, p.238

topic: Running, Men, Woe

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

topic: Max, Woe

Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.

- Paul the Apostle

source: Source: www.preaching.com

topic: Woe, Ifs

Woe to the conquered.

- Livy

source: Livy (2006). “The History of Rome”, p.394, Hackett Publishing

topic: Woe, Defeat

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3230, Delphi Classics

topic: Heritage, Woe, Lord

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: 1821 Adonais, stanza 36.

topic: Drunk, Crowns, Woe, Draught

Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.

- Frank K. Sonnenberg

topic: Humor, Woe, Sometimes

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.548, Bantam Classics

topic: Children, Men, Woe

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.252

topic: Bird, Merit, Woe

All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That your hearts are filled with woe It's a woe that no mortal can cure. -"the Curragh of Kildare

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Pain, Heart, Woe

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Woe

The latter end of joy is woe.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

source: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.117

topic: Joy, Woe, Ends

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Grace, Woe, Neglect

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

topic: Woe, Chance, Reason

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1985). “Faust/Bilingual”, Bantam Classics

topic: Self, Want, Woe

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

topic: Atheism, World, Woe

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

topic: House, Woe

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

- Margaret Fuller

source: Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.306

topic: Woe, Infinite Hope, Life Is

The cholerick man never wants woe.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

topic: Men, Want, Woe

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

- Andre Gide

source: Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

topic: People, Age, Woe

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

- Thomas Campbell

source: Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.95

topic: Gratitude, Woe, Philanthropy

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

topic: Woe, Obedience, Claims

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.274

topic: World, Woe, Judgment

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

source: John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.475

topic: Death, Woe, Kind

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

source: John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.298

topic: Woe, Pity, My Own

- John Heywood

topic: Care, Woe, Fruit, Figs

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Community, President, Woe, Intelligence Community

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

topic: Woe, Stills, Eternal

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

source: John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.352

topic: Fall, Woe, Bliss

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

source: 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 780

topic: Earth, Woe, Losing, Paradise Lost Book 1, Paradise Lost Book 9

- H. G. Wells

source: H. G. Wells (2016). “Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

topic: Photography, Thinking, Woe

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

- Hafez

topic: Fate, Yield, Woe

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

- Joni Mitchell

source: Song: Nathan La Franeer, Album: Song to a Seagull

topic: Sadness, Garden, Woe

The market alone can't solve our health-care woes.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.184, Canongate Books

topic: Care, Woe, Health Care

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Lost Ones, Years, Woe

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

- Robert Burns

source: Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.214

topic: Thrill, Woe, Pleasure

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

- Vincent Van Gogh

source: Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

topic: Trying, Woe, Study

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Song, Littles, Woe

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.

- Voltaire

topic: Giving, Letters, Woe, Rendering

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.240, New York Review of Books

topic: Generations, Woe, Midst

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

- Robert Southey

source: "Common-place Book: Analytical readings".

topic: Friendship, Sleep, Woe

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

- Walter Scott

source: Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.636, e-artnow

topic: Woe, Scene, Mortals

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Horse, Woe, Wealth, Horsemen

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

- Juvenal

topic: Men, Unhappy, Woe

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

source: Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Woe, Castaway, Please

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.

topic: Wisdom, Woe, Madness

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

source: Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.400

topic: Fire, Giving, Woe, Invert

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.

source: Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.50

topic: Hands, Delight, Woe

Woe and death to all who resist my will!

source: Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.366

topic: Joy, Down And, Woe, Mildness

- Wilhelm II

topic: Woe

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

source: Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

topic: Life, Men, Woe

- William Batchelder Greene

source: William Batchelder Greene (1871). “Imogen: And Other Poems”, p.72

topic: Rivers, Woe, Waste

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

- Kate Morton

source: Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mind, Woe, Busy

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

- Kate Morton

source: Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Air, Woe, Stressful Times

Joy and woe are woven fine.

- William Blake

source: 'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

topic: Joy, Woven, Woe, Joyfulness

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Guilt, Woe, Deeds

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

- Edward Young

source: Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.45

topic: Love, Woe, Solitary

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

source: 1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.85-7.

topic: Woe, Traitor, Cases

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

source: William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps (1855). “The complete works of Shakspere, with historical and analytical introductions to each play, also notes explanatory by J.O. Halliwell and other commentators, illustr. by portraits of actors of the age. [3 vols. With] The doubtful plays, with notes by H. Tyrrell”, p.210

topic: Liberty, Woe, Headstrong

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

source: William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II”, p.274

topic: Death, Woe, Poor

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

source: William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2008). “Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)”, p.83, Associated University Presse

topic: Sweet, Doubt, Woe

Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.

source: William Shakespeare (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.419

topic: Thinking, Woe, Misery, Lear

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

source: BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.8, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Comfort, Done, Woe

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

source: William Shakespeare (1852). “The Supplementary Works of William Shakspeare [i.e. Shakespeare]: Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays : with Glossarial and Other Notes”, p.403

topic: Woe, Pleasure

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

source: William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.303

topic: Fate, Black, Woe, Romeo And Juliet Important, Romeo And Juliet Juliet

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

source: William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

topic: Nurse, Looks, Woe, Measure For Measure

These times of woe afford no time to woo.

source: William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.507

topic: Grief, World, Woe

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

source: William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.821

topic: Woe