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Woe Quotes - Page 7

Life protracted is protracted woe.

'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 255

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

Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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

Song: Nathan La Franeer, Album: Song to a Seagull

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, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.352

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.40, 谷月社

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

Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.33, City Lights Books

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics