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Alas. I am not an option. -- Laini Taylor
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire! -- Christian Nestell Bovee
...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America! -- John Paul Jones
Alas! how easily things go wrong! -- George MacDonald
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! -- William Shakespeare
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! -- Lord Byron
Alas! we are the sport of destiny. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. -- Claudius Claudianus
Alas, I think I am becoming a god. -- Titus
Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases! -- Louise Colet
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! -- Horace
Alas! when passion is both meek and wild! -- John Keats
Alas! never had I loved him so well! -- Charlotte Bronte
Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away. -- Friedrich Schiller
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt! -- Oscar Wilde
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! -- Publilius Syrus
Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! -- Thomas Hood
Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals. -- Seth
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves. -- Bertolt Brecht
Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper! -- Emily Bronte
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. -- Claudius Claudianus
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. -- John Godfrey Saxe
Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others. -- Emile Gaboriau
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse. -- Pierre Corneille
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! -- Ovid
Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth. -- Felicia Hemans
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. -- Euripides
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. -- Albert Camus
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks. -- Ovid
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. -- Vittorio Alfieri
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! -- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie. -- James Finn Garner
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. -- Karen Armstrong
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! -- Sarah Siddons
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. -- David Brin
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. -- Samuel Morse
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close! -- Omar Khayyam
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human. -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by. -- Andrew Dobson
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! -- Teresa of Avila
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? -- Matthew Arnold
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. -- Robert Breault
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. -- Jack Zipes
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. -- Alexander Pope
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it. -- Benjamin Franklin
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. -- Arthur Helps
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! -- Henry David Thoreau
Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day? -- Sri Chinmoy
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! -- William Shakespeare
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. -- George Eliot
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. -- Hector Berlioz
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. -- Thomas Adams
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. -- Alexander Pope
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. -- Ernest Bramah
Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. -- Steven M. Greer
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight. -- Robert Southwell
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! -- Joan of Arc
Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time... -- Paul McCartney
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. -- Sophocles
Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. -- Charles Spurgeon
How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost? -- Maria Gowen Brooks
Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." -- Emily Post
Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be -- William Shakespeare
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. -- Henry David Thoreau
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence. -- Jean Cocteau
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! -- Charles Lamb
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. -- Jane Austen
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many. -- Caroline Knapp
Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale. -- Sarah MacLean
Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy. -- John B. Tabb
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. -- Charles Baudelaire
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today. -- Thomas Gray
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep? -- Rabindranath Tagore
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds â?? across shallow swamps. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today. -- Thomas Gray
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot. -- Flora Thompson
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. -- Robert Muller
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. -- Horace
Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so. -- Larry Atchley Jr.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. -- Voltaire
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? -- Dante Alighieri
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. -- Jane Austen
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included. -- Pola Negri
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! -- Daniel Defoe
Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone. Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.Lord Arrlo Salkeld -- J.P.Ashman
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right. -- Robert L. Park
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured. -- Vincent de Paul
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart! -- Luc de Clapiers
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! -- Camille Pissarro
The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep "? The storm is in my soul. -- Helen Maria Williams
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan -- Aleister Crowley
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself. -- Hermann Hesse
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. -- Fridtjof Nansen
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- John McCarthy
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School. -- Harry Graham
Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet! -- William Batchelder Greene
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue! -- Thomas a Kempis
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art. -- Charles Spurgeon
Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go! -- William Wordsworth
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. -- Silas Weir Mitchell

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