Woe Quotes - Page 15

• Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Philosophical, Men

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.471

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

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, World, Good Will

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.507

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• Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

  Robert Pollok

  Dark, And Love, Sin

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288

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• O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

  John Milton

  Joy, Fleeting, Paradise

  1665 Adam's lament. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.741-2.

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• We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

  Ouida

  Depth, Affliction

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• What avails it that indulgent Heaven
  From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
  If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,
  Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
  Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares
  Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
  Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
  Serence, and master of yourself, prepare
  For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Spring, Eye, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.116, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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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, Woe Is Me

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

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• Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

  Peter Weiss

  Men, Imagination, Trying

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.90, A&C Black

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• ... men... who say that there is no one in our times and in our midst who is able to keep the Gospel commandments and become like the holy Fathers? To them the Master rightly says with a loud voice, 'Woe to you scribes and Pharisees (Mt. 23:13)! Woe to you, blind guides of the blind (Mt. 23:16), because you do not enter into the kingdom, and you hinder those who wish to enter' (Mt. 23:13).

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Father, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.312, Paulist Press

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• Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1975). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Lying, Evil, Needs

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• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Men, Catholic Religion

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• In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendly, Would Be, Tomatoes

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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Brightness, Hours

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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? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Country, Men, Soul

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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

  Woe Is Me, Evil, Would Be

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• Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

  George Crabbe

  Art, Men, Faithful

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.146

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• To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fighting, Bravery, Sorrow

  c.1859 Complete Poems, no.126 (first published 1890).

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• A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

  John Milton

  Flames, Light, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Choices, Ignorant, Slavery

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.298

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• Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

  Michael Drayton

  Grief, Sorrow, Comfort

  Michael Drayton (1753). “The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq”, p.358

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• There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Regret, Eye, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Regret”

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• Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Light, Color

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1826). “The last man, by the author of Frankenstein”, p.197

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Infinite Hope, Life Is, Revelations

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.306

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• Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

  William Wycherley

  Sympathy, Pain, Grief

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