Alas Quotes

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?