Woe Quotes
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“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.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
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“Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?”
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“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
“I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..”
― Inferno
― Inferno
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.”
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“Raindrops fall from clouds of gray.
The fragile flowers grow.
Teardrops seem all I can say.
They speak of endless woe.
Your fingers wipe my grief away.
A seed of love you sow.
A hardened heart reverts to clay.
You mold my love just so.”
― Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
The fragile flowers grow.
Teardrops seem all I can say.
They speak of endless woe.
Your fingers wipe my grief away.
A seed of love you sow.
A hardened heart reverts to clay.
You mold my love just so.”
― Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes”
― The Forgotten Garden
-The Crone's Eyes”
― The Forgotten Garden
“Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.”
― Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
― Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
“Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe: the very accents of love were ineffectual. I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate. The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die - was but a type of me.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“What a troublesome world this is, when one has the most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul.”
― Ajax
― Ajax
“The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.”
― Mary Marston
― Mary Marston
“As to everyone on whom I placed my hand, no misfortune ever befell him, because my heart was sealed and my counsel excellent. But as to any fool, any wretch, who stands up in opposition. I shall give according as he gives. “O woe,” will be said of one who is accused by me, his will take water like a boat. For I am a champion without peer!
THE FIRST PART OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANKHTIFI”
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
THE FIRST PART OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANKHTIFI”
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80)”
― A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80)”
― A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
“Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.”
― What Lurks Below
― What Lurks Below
“He will find no favor on the day of woe.”
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“For no man has adherents on the day of woe.
I gave to the beggar, I raised the orphan,
I gave success to the poor as to the wealthy..”
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
I gave to the beggar, I raised the orphan,
I gave success to the poor as to the wealthy..”
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“It’s the best I have,” he said in earnest.
“I know,” she whispered, not ungrateful but with woe unfeigned. “It just isn’t good enough. Not today.”
― Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I know,” she whispered, not ungrateful but with woe unfeigned. “It just isn’t good enough. Not today.”
― Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Teach me to feel another’s woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
(from The Universal Prayer)”
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To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
(from The Universal Prayer)”
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“Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest evil does its work and needs no interrogation, their invectives are just a waste of time, and the world is the most sweetest to those with a functional taste buds.”
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“Lo, [scribes] are slain,
Their writings stolen,
Woe is me for the grief of this time!”
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
Their writings stolen,
Woe is me for the grief of this time!”
― Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Seems,' madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems'. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, nor customary suits of solemn black, nor windy suspiration of forced breath, no, nor the fruitful river in the eye, nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, that can denote me truly. These indeed 'seem'; for they are actions that a man might play. But I have that within which passes show - these but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
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