Woe Quotes - Page 20

• If the guardian or the mother
  Tell the woes of willful waste,
  Scorn their counsel and their pother,
  You can hang or drown at last.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mother, Lasts, Waste

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.71, Univ of California Press

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• Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?

  Herman Melville

  Pain, Men, People

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.208, Herman Melville

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• Lost is our freedom
  When we submit to women so:
  Why do we need 'em
  When, in their best, they work our woe?

  Thomas Campion

  Freedom, Women, Needs

  Thomas Campion (1889). “The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion”

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• When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

  Laurence Sterne

  Patience, Men, Ideas

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.215

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• There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

  Samuel Richardson

  Taken, Light, Optimism

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.1863, Simon and Schuster

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• Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Death, Men

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• What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
  Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
  The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
  Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
  The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
  The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
  The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
  The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
  Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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• No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

  Walter Scott

  Scene, Mortals

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.636, e-artnow

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• Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Guilt, Deeds

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• My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

  Philip Sidney

  Issues, Secret, Sound

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Liberty, Headstrong

  William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps (1855). “The complete works of Shakspere, with historical and analytical introductions to each play, also notes explanatory by J.O. Halliwell and other commentators, illustr. by portraits of actors of the age. [3 vols. With] The doubtful plays, with notes by H. Tyrrell”, p.210

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• Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
  There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
  But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Comedy of Errors: Third Series”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Spiders, Steel, Links

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• Woe to the conquered.

  Livy

  Defeat

  Livy (2006). “The History of Rome”, p.394, Hackett Publishing

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• God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Grind, Retribution, Mills

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.123

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• Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach
  my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.

  Clara Barton

  Mother, Prayer, Father

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• If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

  John C. Wright

  Atheist, Land, Dancing

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• Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

  Jamie Sams

  Laughing, World, Cures

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• The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Half, World

  "Esoteric Mind Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1973.

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• Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Mean, Support

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Real, Joy

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• To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Forgiveness, Night, Thinking

  "The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley".

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• The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Environmental, Energy, Planets

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• Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Believe, Heart, Justice

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• Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Spiritual, Steps, Depth

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