Woe Quotes - Page 6

• Like a fiend in a cloud,
  With howling woe,
  After night I do crowd,
  And with night will go;
  I turn my back to the east,
  From whence comforts have increased;
  For light doth seize my brain
  With frantic pain.

  William Blake

  Pain, Night, Clouds

  "Poetical Sketches". Book by William Blake, 1783.

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• 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

  Horse, Wealth, Shame

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• She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Witty, Love Is

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.203, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sympathy, Lying, Heart

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• 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

  Tragedy, Haste, Ease

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• Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Blow, Dancing, Trying

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• Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.

  Christine Feehan

  Woe Is Me, Rose, Sometimes

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• If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Greed, Want

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• I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

  William Blake

  Running, Wall, Men

  William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House

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

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Misery, Lear

  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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Comfort, Done, Sun

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

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• Woe to the man who offends a small child!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Men, Small Child

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

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• Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

  Suzanne Collins

  Rays, Forget, Trouble

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.

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• Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Care, Accepted

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.40, 谷月社

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Grief, Eye

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 76

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• We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1701, Delphi Classics

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• When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Parent, Heaven

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• Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Trying, Body

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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

  Richelle Mead

  Missing, Criminals, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1332, Penguin

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• Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree!

  Clive Barker

  Woe Is Me, Tree, Tunes

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• The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

  Brennan Manning

  Church, Complaining, Stories

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.22, Multnomah

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• Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

  Herman Melville

  Names, Oil, Water

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.53, Velvet Element Books

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• I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that movement of her plump shoulders. But, probably the truth was that I loved her because she loved me. To her I was the ideal man: brains, pluck. And there was none dressed better. I remember once, when I first put on that new dinner jacket, with the vast trousers, she clapsed her hands, sank down on a chair and murmured: 'Oh, Hermann...." It was ravishment bordering upon something like heavenly woe.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Eye, Men, Hair

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• Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Cheer, Pain, Real

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• Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

  William Blake

  Men, Joy, Soul

  "Auguries of Innocence". Poem by William Blake, 1803.

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