Alas Quotes
Alas Quote of the day
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!
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.
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
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.
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
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.
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!
Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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.
When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. Alas, don't spoil this precious moment. Moments like this are very, very rare.
How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
