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Herman Melville
“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.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

William Shakespeare
“When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”
William Shakespeare, King Lear

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Faraaz Kazi
“Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?”
Faraaz Kazi

Pearl Bailey
“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
Pearl Bailey
tags: joy, love, woe

Robin Hobb
“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.”
Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dan       Brown
“I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..”
Dan Brown, Inferno

Anthony Liccione
“In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.”
Anthony Liccione

Sophocles
“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?”
Sophocles, Antigone

Richelle E. Goodrich
“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.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

Kate Morton
“The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes”
Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

Mary E. DeMuth
“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.”
Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“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.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
tags: woe

Charles Dickens
“What a troublesome world this is, when one has the most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible.”
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Sophocles
“To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul.”
Sophocles, Ajax

George MacDonald
“The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.”
George MacDonald, 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”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Neena Verma
“Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80)”
Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

Donald Firesmith
“Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.”
Donald G. Firesmith, What Lurks Below

“The woe of wrath comes to whoever does wicked acts.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“He will find no favor on the day of woe.”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
tags: favor, woe

“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..”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Richelle E. Goodrich
“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.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Alexander Pope
“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)”
Alexander Pope

Michael Bassey Johnson
“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.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Joan Bauer
“Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.”
Joan Bauer, Best Foot Forward

“Lo, [scribes] are slain,
Their writings stolen,
Woe is me for the grief of this time!”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

William Shakespeare
“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.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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