Woe Quotes - Page 18

• Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, Sleep, Thee

  "Common-place Book: Analytical readings".

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• Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, States, Knows

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 255

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• Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Life, Hands, Joy

  Nathaniel Cotton (1791). “Various Pieces in Verse and Prose”, p.69

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• To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

  Homer

  Life, Men, Labour

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

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• Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

  Robert Browning

  Lost Ones, Years, Losing

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

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• Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

  John Milton

  Earth, Losing, Lost

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 780

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• And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

  Thomas Gray

  Laughter, Laughing, Madness

  Thomas Gray (1814). “The poems of Thomas Gray with critical notes, a life of the author... by John Mitford”, p.22

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• I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel that will, in good time, and by God's decree, work out her own independence.

  Belle Boyd

  War, Believe, Fire

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• Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

  Walter Raleigh

  Witty, Love Is, Silence

  Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Silent Lover II”

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• Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Poor, Ends

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II”, p.274

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• [Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Goal, Inner Strength

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• The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, People, Voting

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• But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Men, Tears

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.123

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• We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.

  May Sarton

  Grief, Writing, Thinking

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• Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

  Louis Sullivan

  Depression, Tired, People

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• Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

  David Brooks

  Community, President, Insult

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• Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.

  Robert Greene

  Heaven, Despair, World

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.294

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• Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

  Thomas Gray

  Views, Comfort, Hue

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.178

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• Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.

  Slobodan Milosević

  World, Toxic, Division

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• Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Archer, Arrows

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• Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
  Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
  The burdens laid upon our mortal being
  Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.

  Phoebe Cary

  Heart, Bears, Care

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• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Women, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

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• A woman's counsel brought us first to woe,
  And made her man his paradise forego,
  Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been
  As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

  John Dryden

  Women, Heart, Sorrow

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.243

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• Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

  Bill Vaughan

  Blow, Wind, Enemy

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• The cholerick man never wants woe.

  George Herbert

  Men, Want

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

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