Woe Quotes - page 10

Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. (Edward Young)
Behold, we live through all things,-famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,-but we can not die, Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,- Lo, all things can be borne! View quote
Elizabeth Chase Allen
Nor peace nor ease the heart can know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too. View quote
Frances Greville
Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow. View quote
James Thomson (poet)
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. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
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. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Go, gentle spirit! now supremely blest, From scenes of pain and struggling virtue go: From thy immortal seat of heavenly rest Behold us lingering in a world of woe! View quote
Luís de Camões
A scene so solemn, and the tender woe Of parting friends, constrained my tears to flow. To weigh our anchors from our native shore- To dare new oceans never dared before- Perhaps to see my native coast no more- Forgive, O king, if as a man I feel, I bear no bosom of obdurate steel. (The godlike hero here suppressed the sigh, And wiped the tear-drop from his manly eye... View quote
Luís de Camões
For nature forms our spirits to receive Each bent that outward circumstance can give: She kindles pleasure, bids resentment glow, Or bows the soul to earth in hopeless woe. View quote
Horace
No, had I e'en a hundred tongues, A hundred mouths, and iron lungs, Those types of guilt I could not show, Nor tell the forms of penal woe. (John Conington)
Myself not ignorant of woe, Compassion I have learned to show. View quote
John Conington
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. View quote
John Pomfret
Not in the time of pleasure Hope doth set her bow; But in the sky of sorrow, Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we On beyond the years! The soul would have no rainbow Had the eyes no tears. View quote
John Vance Cheney
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many. View quote
Homer
Here let us feast, and to the feast be joined Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind; Review the series of our lives, and taste The melancholy joy of evils passed: For he who much has suffered, much will know, And pleased remembrance builds delight on woe. View quote
Homer
And may the gods accomplish your desire: a home, a husband, and harmonious converse with him – the best thing in the world being a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. Woe to their enemies, joy to their friends! But all this they know best. View quote
Homer
To labour is the lot of man below And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. View quote
Homer
Be praised, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, from whose embrace no living person can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Happy those she finds doing your most holy will. The second death can do no harm to them. View quote
Francis of Assisi
Woe to the land that's govern'd by a child. View quote
William Shakespeare
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)
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe. View quote
William Shakespeare
And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it, Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it. View quote
Ogden Nash
He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself. View quote
James Branch Cabell
In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: - "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself." View quote
James Branch Cabell