(70 quotes found)
“Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe?”
William Shakespeare
“He who sings scares away his woes”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe”
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
William Blake
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.”
Sigmund Freud
“Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night and the winter's snow,In the naked and outcast, seek Love there!”
“Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.”
Andrew V. Mason
“Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days; Compare dead happiness with living woe; Think that thy babes were fairer than they were, And he that slew them fouler than he is: Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse: Revolving this will teach”
“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
Buddha
