WOE

Related Subjects: Adversity, Grief, Misery, Mourning, Sorrow

1. Here is woe's self, and not the mask of woe.—T. B. ALDRICH, Andromeda
   

2. But we are all the same—the fools of our own woes!—MATTHEW ARNOLD, Empedocles on Etna
   

3. Thus do extremest ills a joy possess,
   And one woe makes another woe seem less.—MICHAEL DRAYTON, England's Heroical Epistles
   

4. Sure there's a lethargy in mighty woe,
   Tears stand congeal'd and cannot flow,
   Like Niobe we marble grow
   And petrify with grief.—DRYDEN, Threnodia Augustalis
   

5. Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.—ROBERT HERRICK, Sorrows Succeed
   

6. Weep on! and, as thy sorrows flow,
   I'll taste the luxury of woe.—THOMAS MOORE, Anacreontic
   

7. Lift not the festal mask!—enough to know,
   No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.—SCOTT, The Lord of the Isles
   

8. But I have that within which passeth show;
   These but the trappings and the suits of woe.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

9. One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
   So fast they follow.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

10. O, woe is me,
    To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

11. The man that makes his toe
    When he his heart should make
    Shall of a corn cry woe,
    And turn his sleep to wake.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

12. My grief lies all within;
    And these external manners of laments
    Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
    That swells with silence in the tortured soul.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
    

13. All these woes shall serve
    For sweet discourses in our time to come.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

14. Woe, woe, and woe upon woe!—SOPHOCLES, Ajax