Woe Quotations

Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

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!

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of the aftermath.

preyed upon elderly males by telling them tall tales of anguish and woe and promises of romance.

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! / Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

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

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe

This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Woe to the company that ignores the customer.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! / Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

Woe is me, she cries out, a time of tribulation hangs over head like a dark cloud...yet through internal contradictions, she is grateful.

We all know exactly what we love, and woe is you if you're on the other side.

What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.

There was a lot of concern about who was going to pitch this year, what are we going to do, sort of a woe is us. Everybody was worried, and she got up on the bus and told everybody that it was a challenge to all of us. We were going to have to hit better, field better, play harder, pick our game up and play on a higher level.

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! / It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

If you depart from those expectations -- that is, if you break the rules, if you ignore the spirit of the law even while meeting the letter -- woe be unto you. There will be consequences, and they will be grave.

I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's why I gave out the guarantee.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, Brood of Morgoth, or Bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread, nor danger, not doom Itself shall defend him from Feanor and Feanor's kin whoso hideth or hordeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth, or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: Death we will deal him ere day's ending. Woe unto the world's end! Our words hesar thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountian hear in witness and our vow remember Manwe and Varda!

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

The latter end of joy is woe.

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

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.

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

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

Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

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

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes

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.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

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.

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

Long exercised in woes.

And woe succeeds woe.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

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

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe...

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.

The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

I am the self-consumer of my woes,

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints not of woe

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! / For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.