Best Woe Lines

365 Woe quotes by 249 unique authors

The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to… — Mary Baker Eddy
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that… — Eugene Delacroix
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… — Vincent Van Gogh
No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those… — Sophocles
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe. — Steve Earle
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… — Vincent de Paul
Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. — Arthur Koestler
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! — John Heywood
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved… — Anne Rice
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class… — Friedrich Engels
Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing. — Samuel Daniel
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is… — Marvin J. Ashton
Out of my own great woe I make my little songs. — Heinrich Heine
The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell. — Saint John Chrysostom
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. — Julian of Norwich
The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
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… — Joan D. Vinge
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. — Petrarch
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss! — Petrarch
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length… — Juvenal
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each… — John Kendrick Bangs
Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love… — John Kendrick Bangs
If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength… — John Kendrick Bangs
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer
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… — William Blake

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