Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough… — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be,… — Enya Copy Share Image
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow… — Jack London Copy Share Image
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas!… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas!… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God. — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
“Alas, that they are so! To die even when they to perfection grow!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so. — Larry Atchley Jr Copy Share Image
