Woe Quotes - Page 15

• Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

  Brady Corbet

  Careers, Television, Financial

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

  Hafez

  Fate, Destiny, Yield

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• It would have been inconceivable that Eva [Braun] would ever have criticized [Adolf Hitler] to me. To his face? Yes, she would, but to me or anybody in our family? Never. And woe to anybody who dared criticize him to her.

  Gretl Braun

  Faces, Criticize, Our Family

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• Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grace, Neglect, Mary

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• What avails it that indulgent Heaven
  From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
  If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,
  Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
  Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares
  Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
  Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
  Serence, and master of yourself, prepare
  For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Spring, Eye, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.116, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mean, Men

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

  Edmund Spenser

  War, Men, Flesh

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• Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

  Robert Pollok

  Dark, And Love, Sin

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288

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• A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

  John Milton

  Flames, Light, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Owl, Midnight

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

  Edward Young

  Happiness, Laughter, House

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.78

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• writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.

  Jill Tweedie

  Writing, Men, Two

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• If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  War, Eye, Tears

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1855). “The History of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.326

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• Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Broken Heart, Pain

  Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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• We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.

  Mark Batterson

  Leadership, Christian, Appreciate

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2014

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• Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.

  Bernard Membe

  Country, Uncles, Blow

  "Unity will end crises, Membe tells Africa" by Austin Beyadi, The Guardian, March 28, 2008.

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• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
  That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
  Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
  And put sullen black incontinent.
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
  In weeping after this untimely bier.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  God, Religious, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

  Omar Khayyam

  Strength, Heart, Fate

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• Above all, 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" thought the greed of getting supporters.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mean, Greed

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

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• Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Philosophical, Men

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.471

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• Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,
  For what is in this world but grief and woe?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, World, Good Will

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.507

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• Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Pain, Grief

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• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

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