Woe quotes
167 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism."
"It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him."
"Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day."
"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."
"Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe"
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"Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing."
"Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
"When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state."
"Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe."
"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
"Woe to the house where there is no chiding."
"Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up."
"But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed."
"O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!"
"This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end."
"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
"Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe."
"Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe."
"Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away."
"Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe."
"When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes."
"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
"It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers."
"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."
"Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes."
