Woe

Woe is an intense and contemplative form of sadness or mental suffering, often brought on by regret for one's actions or fortunes.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 886.

• An Iliad of woes.
  • Demosthenes, 387. 12. Diodorus Siculus. Used in Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater, Part II.

• Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
  • Robert Greene, Sonnet.

• When one is past, another care we have;
  Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
  • Robert Herrick, Sorrows Succeed.

• And woe succeeds to woe.
  • Homer, The Iliad, Book XVI, line 139. Pope's translation.

• Long exercised in woes.
  • Homer, The Odyssey, Book I, line 2. Pope's translation.

• Woe unto you,… for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.
  • Matthew, XXIII, 23.

• So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to glow
  For other's good or melt at other's woe.
  • Alexander Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, referencing Homer, The Odyssey, Book XVIII, 269.

• I was not always a man of woe.
  • Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Canto II, Stanza 12.

• One woe doth tread upon another's heel
  So fast they follow.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 7, line 165.

• All these woes shall serve
  For sweet discourses in our time to come.
  • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 5, line 52.

• Woes, cluster; rare are solitary woes;
  They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night III, line 63.