Woe Quotes - Page 5

• Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Trying, Body

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mother, Hurt, Brother

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• Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Love Is, Redemption, Charity

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• Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.

  John Keats

  Gratitude, Heaven, Thrones

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

  Johann Arndt

  Jesus, Heart, Grieving

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• In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.

  Richard Sibbes

  Book, Wicked, Tragedy

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.186, Titus Books

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• Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fit, Christianity, Preaching

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

  James Thomson

  Depth, Unrest, Desperate

  James Thomson (2011). “The City of Dreadful Night”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

  Herman Melville

  Fire, Giving, Madness

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.400

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• We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Grief, Complaining

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 3: The Eternal Quest”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• They saw their injured country's woe.

  Philip Freneau

  Country, Memorial Day, Saws

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

  Brian Jacques

  Law, Paws, Rats

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall”, p.104, Penguin

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• There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

  Robert Gilfillan

  Happiness, Pain, Heart

  Robert Gilfillan, William Anderson (1851). “Poems and Songs: With Memoir of the Author, and Appendix of His Latest Pieces”, p.163

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• Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

  Juliet Marillier

  Baby, Different, World

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• This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Tragedy, Important

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• Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Loss, Want, Burden

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.275, Image

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• SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ’tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Men, Hands

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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

  Vespasian

  Thinking, Woe Is Me, Dying

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• The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Inspiration, Men

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• We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us - loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe - yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

  Queen Victoria

  Love, Feet, Suffering

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• I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

  Jeff Beck

  Trying, Privacy, Cherish

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Apr 13, 2017

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• Like a fiend in a cloud,
  With howling woe,
  After night I do crowd,
  And with night will go;
  I turn my back to the east,
  From whence comforts have increased;
  For light doth seize my brain
  With frantic pain.

  William Blake

  Pain, Night, Clouds

  "Poetical Sketches". Book by William Blake, 1783.

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• When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Land, White

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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• Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Wealth, Shame

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• She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Witty, Love Is

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.203, Cengage Learning EMEA

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