Definition of Woe

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Definition of Woe
	Woe Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. A curse; a malediction. Woeful; sorrowful. Related Definitions: Calamity, Curse, Grief, Heavy, Malediction, Misery, Sorrow, Sorrowful, Woeful

Woe Quotations

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire

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

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

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

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

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
John Piper

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

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

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Homer

Woe Translations

woe in Dutch is ach, wee
woe in Finnish is voi
woe in German is wehe, Leid
woe in Latin is vae
woe in Spanish is penas
woe in Swedish is lidande

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