Woes Quotes

“Neither my acts have wiped the woes of
any sufferer out, nor have I cured
pains of wounded ones;
with the faith pompous mercenary,
O' Glorious! O 'Lord Almighty!
how can I bow my head in your adulation?”
― Suman Pokhrel, मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]

“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“When I write...
I am in the fond arms
of a childhood friend
upon whose colorful heart I can hang
the charcoal drawings
of my woes.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”
― Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway

“Bloodraven is the root of all our woes, the white worm gnawimg at the heart of the realm.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“King Solomon's life reminds me
of wisdom, wealth, women, woes.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. "Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews," she said, "not even us.”
― Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

“In vain do I stretch out my arms toward her when I awaken in the morning from my weary slumbers. In vain do I seek for her at night in my bed, when some innocent dream has happily deceived me, and placed her near me in the fields, when I have seized her hand and covered it with countless kisses. And when I feel for her in the half confusion of sleep, with the happy sense that she is near, tears flow from my oppressed heart; and, bereft of all comfort, I weep over my future woes.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“On the surface, I seem to be glad of new people;
But doomed to leave old friends behind me,
I cry out from my heart for Shin-Fêng wine
To melt away my thousand woes.”
― Li Shangyin

“When we keep repeating our woes, even to ourselves, we let them vibrate through our skin n bones. We feel trapped for our thoughts bind us.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Hope is healing for human woes.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“And he said...

...woes are just unfulfilled dreams and failures that we must accept.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Aye, Aye!’ Bellarion displayed ill-humour, whilst his eyes abated nothing of their suspicious glance. ‘It is easy to make philosophy upon the woes of others.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Bellarion