Woe Quotes

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Happiness, Laughter, Christian Inspirational

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.76, FV Éditions

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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

  Woe Is Me, Looks, May

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

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• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Morning, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

  Camille Paglia

  Careers, Issues, Life And Death

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• Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Illustration, Woe Unto, Historical

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Pain, Cat

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• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Time, Freedom

  Speech in House of Commons, 11 Nov. 1947

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

  Robert Herrick

  Past, Care, Succeed

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.16

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• 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

  Worry, Age, Wonderful

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• Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Suffering, Worst

  James Russell Lowell (1869). “Under the Willows, and Other Poems”, p.236

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• Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Doe, Conformity, Clique

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 50), 1973.

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

  Sophocles

  Looks, Danger

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

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• O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

  Elizabeth I

  Care, Wavering, Restless

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• Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fellowship, Taught, Self Pity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author”, p.18

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• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Sadness, World

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

  Minna Antrim

  Jealousy, Names, Green

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• 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

  Men, World, Walks

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• 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

  Engineering, Tools, Management

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• 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

  Giving, Letters, Spirit

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• In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Freedom, Writing, America

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.110, Penguin

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• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Children, Artist

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, Fall, Snow

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.359, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Learning, Heart

  Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Edition”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  Samuel Daniel

  Grief, Light, Silence

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236

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• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Weekly World News" Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 33, April 25, 2005.

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