Alas Quotes

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

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

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!

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

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

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

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.

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

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, I am dying beyond my means.

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, I think I am becoming a god.

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

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.

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

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.