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Alas Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
- As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
- Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I…
- The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
- two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
- 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,…
- 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...…
- Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.
More Alas Quotes
- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus
- This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by… — James L. Buckley
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
- And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. — George Carlin
- Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! — Louis Untermeyer
- Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry,… — George Arnold
- Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! — William Shakespeare
- In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points… — Tom Robbins