Quotes of Woe - somelinesforyou

“ There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

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

- Sir William Blake

“ It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. ”

- Andrew Young

“ Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. ”

- Homer

“ Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us… ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. ”

- William George Jordan

“ If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy. ”

- George Weinberg

“ Courts are not immune to the sadness and tragedy that a case represents. ”

- Jeffrey Miller

“ Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion. ”

- Unknown

“ For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ”

- Bible

“ For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show). ”

- Unknown

“ Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, The mind annihilates, and calls for more. ”

- Edward Young

“ Grief causes suffering and disease. ”

- Daniel D. Palmer

“ Day doth daily draw my sorrows longer, And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Raymond Chandler

“ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes now wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Woe be to him that reads but one book. ”

- George Herbert

“ With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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

- Victor Hugo

“ The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ”

- Bailey

“ Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ 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. ”

- John Updike
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