Woe Is Me Quotes

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  Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

  Alexander Pope

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Faults

  'The Universal Prayer' (1738)

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• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Faith, Wisdom, Believe

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't get what we want when we want it, we feel ripped off. To make matters worse, we intensify our problems by continuously rehashing our woe-is-me story to the entire world. Whatever it is that has the potential to keep you from enjoying the day, understand that it's not the situation itself that is causing you to be unhappy. It's your thoughts and how you allow them to control you. It's what you choose to focus on that fuels your emotions and defines your reality.

  Steve Rizzo

  Reality, Focus, Unhappy

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• 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

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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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

  Tree, Tunes, Fruit

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• woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Horatio, Hamlet Ophelia

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• Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Life, Trust

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.670, e-artnow

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• I cannot love as I have loved,
  And yet I know not why;
  It is the one great woe of life
  To feel all feeling die.

  Philip James Bailey

  Life, Woe Unto, Feelings

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.265

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• Woe is me!
  The winged words on which my soul would pierce
  Into the heights of love's rare universe,
  Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--
  I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Fire, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.230, Univ of California Press

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• We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

  R. C. Sproul

  Light, Shadow, Safe

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• 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

  Football, Bad Mood, Angry

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• 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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Evil, Would Be, Each Day

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

  Vespasian

  Thinking, Dying, Last Words

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• 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

  Flu, Life Is, Worst

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• Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one existed." "I'm not tragic." Kaldar held up his hand. "Spare me. Some children are born wearing a silk shirt; you were born wrapped in melancholy. When they slapped you to make you cry, you just sighed heavily and a single tear rolled from your eye." He dragged his finger from the corner of his left eye to his cheek. " Your first words were probably 'woe is me.'" "My first words were 'Kaldar, shut up!' because you talked too much. Still do.

  Ilona Andrews

  Children, Congratulations, Eye

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• Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

  Anzia Yezierska

  America, Ships, Bitter

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• A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

  Eminem

  Kids, Self, Kmart

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• Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Men, Names, Wealth

  Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Way To Arcady”

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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

  Rose, Sometimes, Chips

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• 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. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ideas, Goal, Finals

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

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• 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

  Reality, Issues, Looks

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• Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Grief, Winter, Years

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 18

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• 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

  Looks, May, Path

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.126, Parkstone International

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• You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

  John C. McGinley

  Children, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

  Isaiah

  Kings, Eye, Men

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