Woe Quotes

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

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

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

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Woe to the conquered.

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

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

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

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.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

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.

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

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

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

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Ninety per cent 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 - so how can we know anyone else?

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.