Alas Quotes
349 Alas quotes by 262 unique authors
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Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within…
— John Chancellor
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
— Alfred de Musset
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Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely…
— Charles Lamb
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the…
— Charles Dickens
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But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to…
— Kenny Smith
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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
— William James
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Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every…
— George Washington
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
— William Wycherley
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
— John Brown
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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas;…
— John Donne
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
— Lord Byron
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Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
— Edward Abbey
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Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
— Daniel Defoe
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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…
— Sappho
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I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than…
— Herman Melville
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I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even…
— John R. Rice
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
— Jean Cocteau
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I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find…
— Amy Lowell
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