Woe Quotes - page 9

Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain. (George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton)
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thought Salve and solace for the woe it wrought. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? When is that equality of influence which our form of government was intended to secure to the electors to be restored? This generation should courageously face these grave questions, and not leave them as a heritage of woe to the next. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
Woe to him who in passing should hurl an insult at this gentle and pensive head. He would be punished, as all vulgar souls are punished, by his very vulgarity, and by his incapacity to conceive what is divine. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: "No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans." View quote
Zoroaster
On Thee we fling our burdening woe, O love Divine, forever dear: Content to suffer, while we know, Living and dying, Thou art near! View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. View quote
Jane Austen
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There 's nothing true but Heaven. View quote
Charles Lamb
Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don't necessarily think that's how it is, in real life, and I don't think that's how it should be in films. (Mila Kunis)
To me, long disciplined in woe, are known Divers lustrations; when to speak I know, When to be silent. View quote
Aeschylus
Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh! View quote
Thomas the Apostle
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. View quote
H. L. Mencken
To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe. View quote
Emily Dickinson
All for myself the sigh would swell, The tear of anguish start; I little knew what wilder woe Had filled the Poet's heart. View quote
Anne Brontë
I ask not how remote the day Nor what the sinner's woe Before their dross is purged away, Enough for me to know. View quote
Anne Brontë
Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. View quote
Pearl Bailey
There give thy griefs full vent to flow O'er the unconscious dead, With no spectator to thy woe But my attendant shade. (Ann Eliza Bleecker)
If I should die to-night And you should come in deepest grief and woe- And say:-"Here's that ten dollars that I owe," I might arise in my large white cravat And say, "What's that?" View quote
Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.
Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know, Who gain experience from another's woe. View quote
Ludovico Ariosto
But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. View quote
Herman Melville
I don't know what this so-called pure gospel is. Was the preaching of John the Baptist pure? He did not say only, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" (Matthew 3:2). He also "rebuked [Herod]...for all the evils which Herod had done" (Luke 3:19). He was beheaded because he didn't confine himself to abstract teaching. Jesus did not preach only the "pure" Sermon on the Mount, but also what some actual church leaders would have called a negative sermon: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!...Serpents, brood of vipers!" (Matthew 23:27,33). It is for such "impure" preaching that He was crucified. The Pharisees would not have bothered about the Sermon on the Mount. View quote
Richard Wurmbrand