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Alas Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
- 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…
- But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
- Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them…
- Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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