Woe Quotes - Page 11

• As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

  Edward Young

  Stars, Night, Men

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.283

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• Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

  Lord Byron

  Heritage, Lord

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3230, Delphi Classics

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• You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.

  Margaret Preston

  Flower, House, Design

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• It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, People, Water

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

  Anzia Yezierska

  America, Woe Is Me, Ships

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• Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Get Well, Cutting

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe
  The fate of many.

  Homer

  Fate, Toil, Bitter

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.254

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• And woe succeeds woe.

  Homer

  Succeed

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• What mighty woes
  To thy imperial race from woman rose.

  Homer

  Women, Race, Rose

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.331

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• Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Humanity, Despair

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1826). “The last man, by the author of Frankenstein”, p.158

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• Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes,
  Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose;
  Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance
  With timid eye, to read the distant glance;
  Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease,
  To name the nameless ever-new disease;
  Who with mock patience dire complaints endure,
  Which real pain and that alone can cure;
  How would ye bear in real pain to lie,
  Despised, neglected, left alone to die?
  How would ye bear to draw your latest breath,
  Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

  George Crabbe

  Prayer, Pain, Real

  George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1857). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.15

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Cooking, Sauce

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• The hues of bliss more brightly glow,
  Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.

  Thomas Gray

  Hue, Bliss

  Thomas Gray, Thomas PARK (F.S.A.) (1808). “The poetical works of Thomas Gray, etc. With a separate titlepage bearing the imprint of John Sharpe, London, dated 1805”, p.62

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• Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.

  Laurie Colwin

  Success, Dream, Self

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• Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us;
  Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
  Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
  Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill.
  Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;
  Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow;
  Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow!
  Work with a stout heart and resolute will!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Lying, Heart, Waiting

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• Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Work, Lying, Heart

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• 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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Memories, Heart

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

  Sophocles

  Sight, Darkness, Deeds

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.83, Sophocles

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• The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Successful, Men, Practice

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• Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Purpose, Carrying On, Saws

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Tragedy, Ridiculous

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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• No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Love You

  Sonnet 71

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• Katar," Raoden called. Yes, My Lord?" Do you know what it is? The secret, I mean?" Kahar smiled. "I havent't been hungry in days, my lord. It is the most amazing feeling in the world-I don't evern notice the pain anymore." Raoden nodded, and Kahar left. The man had come looking for a magical solution to his woes, but he had found an answer much more simple. Pain lost its power when other things became more importan. Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Pain, Mean, Simple

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• Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

  John Milton

  Loss, Men, Eden

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 1 (1667)

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• And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Air, Hands

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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