Alas Quotes

349 Alas quotes by 262 unique authors

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
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget! — Alfred de Musset
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. — Charles Baudelaire
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
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! — H. Rider Haggard
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
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
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
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
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. — William Wycherley
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
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. — John Brown
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
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! — Lord Byron
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
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey
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
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
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
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! — Paul Laurence Dunbar
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire! — Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence. — Jean Cocteau
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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