Alas Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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, 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.

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