Woe Quotes · Page 7

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

— Robert Greene

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Frank K. Sonnenberg

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

— Thomas Campbell

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Jon Hendricks

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

— Eric Hoffer

To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.

— D.T. Suzuki

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

— Philip Sidney

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

— Robert Browning

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

— Margaret Fuller

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of…

— John C. Wright

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

— Jaroslav Seifert

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

— Peyton Manning

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

— William Shakespeare

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action,…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since…

— William Wycherley

It would have been inconceivable that Eva [Braun] would ever have criticized [Adolf Hitler] to me. To his face? Yes, she would,…

— Gretl Braun

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much,…

— Fay Weldon

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want…

— Marge Piercy

Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?…

— William Blake

God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime…

— Pat Robertson

There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is…

— Roger Williams

I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and…

— Hugh Blair

Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in…

— Julian of Norwich

There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier…

— Heinrich Heine

What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe, Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam! The fever'd patient, from his…

— Walter Scott

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

— Heinrich Heine

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

— Arthur Koestler

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

— Elizabeth Keckley

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

— Will Durant

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

— Thomas Gray

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

— Homer

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

— Thomas Gray

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

— Robert Burns