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O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come. — William Shakespeare

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. — Sophocles

Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80) — Neena Verma

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton

Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows. — Joni Mitchell

Sometimes the best cure for life's woes is a sense of humor. — Frank K. Sonnenberg

If the guardian or the mother
Tell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last. — Samuel Johnson

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

Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne. — John Keats

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. — Bill Vaughan

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. — William Shakespeare

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. — John Fletcher

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing. — Rick Majerus

But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper

Woe to those who were never beaten! They will never be winners in this life. — Paulo Coelho

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. — Alexander Pope

Woe is forerun with woe. — William Shakespeare

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

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so. — Robert Southey

This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength. — Gary Shteyngart

Woe to the conquered. — Livy

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

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

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so. — Lord Byron

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! — Brian Jacques

That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?" Marshall smirked. "Woe is me. — Sophie Avett

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! — John Milton

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers. — Sophocles

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels. — Richard Savage

I was not always a man of woe. — Walter Scott

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe! — John Milton

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. — James Russell Lowell

The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always. — Robert Harris

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. — Hesiod

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. — John Dryden

Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we! — James Joyce

the sky's sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words 'I am' dissolved into blue peace. He said it. 'The ocean.' You — David Mitchell

KING HENRY VI:
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so;
For what is in this world but grief and woe? — William Shakespeare

And woe succeeds woe. — Homer

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal

I learn to pity woes so like my own. — John Dryden

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god. — Vespasian

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men. — Walter Scott

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish. — Francine Rivers

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. — William Shakespeare

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone. — Baltasar Gracian

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. — Jedediah Berry

And the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. — Hermann Hesse

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

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead. — George Eliot

This day's black fate on more days doth depend;
This but begins the woe, others must end. — William Shakespeare

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers. — John Dryden

Much marital woe, she reflected, might be prevented by teaching little tozets and tozas early how to properly fight with one another. — Julie Berry

Love can blind you, but woe to one who becomes both blind and deaf. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. — Robert Greene

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent. — Peter Mayle

Woe to the house where there is no chiding. — George Herbert

Dumbfounded arrogance can clutch a man, but woe will certainly kill him — Aaron Ozee

We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace. — Mark Batterson

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Theirs is a story of woe and warning. Take heed and listen well . . . . — Kresley Cole

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. — John Irving

Too young for woe, though not for tears. — Washington Irving

Woe, woe is me that I am a sinner, that I grieve this blessed God, who is infinite in goodness and grace! — Anonymous

So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute. — William Shakespeare

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

Woe to that land that's governed by a child. — William Shakespeare

Everything on earth has happened before,
nothing is new,
but woe to the lovers
who fail to discover a fresh blossom
in every future kiss. — Jaroslav Seifert

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering. — Rhidian Brook

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains. — Franz Grillparzer

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

Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power! — William Beckford

The latter end of joy is woe. — Geoffrey Chaucer

To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe. — Emily Dickinson

Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation! — Apolinario Mabini

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

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years. — Robert Browning

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose. — John Fletcher

Lost is our freedom
When we submit to women so:
Why do we need 'em
When, in their best, they work our woe? — Thomas Campion

Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir. — Gregory Maguire

Long exercised in woes. — Homer

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

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

The market alone can't solve our health-care woes. — Barack Obama

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After. — Dorothy Cannell

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile.
Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex. — Christine Feehan

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye — Stephen King

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! — Robert Gilfillan

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell. — Saint John Chrysostom

The elders encourage diversity, once you jump through enough of their hoops," said Siham, "but woe to the hoop-averse." "How — Gabriel Squailia