A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
Bram Stoker

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
James Beattie

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

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville

It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
Simon Forman

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Friedrich Schiller

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Anne Bronte

Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.
Ben McKenzie

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Edward Young

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.
John Thorn

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
Robert Greene

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Will Durant

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn