Top 552 Alas Quotes & Sayings

Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.

Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

There'll come a time when airplanes are much more efficient when it comes to producing lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, there'll come a time when we'll be able to offset those emissions much more effectively than we do now. But alas at the moment, flying airplanes is really one of the least defensible things that we do and it's one of the things that I indulge in quite frequently, alas.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

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

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor.

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

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! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

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

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

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

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, ? actions, desires, dreams, words!

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

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

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

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

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

Alas. I am not an option.

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.