Best Alas Qoutes
349 Alas quotes by 262 unique authors
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Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all…
— Alfred de Musset
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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks…
— Voltaire
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The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were…
— Marcel Proust
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Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all…
— Orson Scott Card
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
— Dante Alighieri
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned…
— Anthony Trollope
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And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If…
— Megan McCafferty
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Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing…
— Brian Jacques
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They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they…
— Lord Byron
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little.…
— Lloyd Alexander
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes…
— Victor Hugo
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Alas! never had I loved him so well!
— Charlotte Bronte
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
— Victor Hugo
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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,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!
— John Keats
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Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a…
— Terry Pratchett
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Yes, but I’ve already made my fortune in other things. (Solin) Such as? (Geary) Viagra. My brother learned to take a personal problem and profit…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Do you recall Fred Merriville?” She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?” “The poor fellow has nothing to…
— Georgette Heyer
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Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but…
— William Shakespeare
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Thomas Bowman's toupee, alas, was never found. He was somewhat mollified by the gift of a very fine hat from Westcliff on Christmas day.
— Lisa Kleypas
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I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of…
— Cassandra Clare
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Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
— Glenway Wescott
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