Alas Quotes

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Alas, time stays, we go.

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.