Alas Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.