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Quotes About Alas

Alas, there is no one in hell... All the devils are here!
~ Aimé Césaire
Alas! There's no one in hell ... all the devils are here!
~ Aimé Césaire
I hated to interrupt her. I know how much a dream can be worth, but, alas... Hello.
~ Richard Brautigan
He applauded their idealism. And yes, music might be immortal, but composers alas are not.
~ Julian Barnes
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!
~ David Herbert Lawrence
Alas. You're no Vader, you're just a child with a mask.
~ Jason Fry
But, alas! to make meA fixed figure for the time of scornTo point his slow and moving finger at.
~ William Shakespeare
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning.
~ William Wordsworth
Tradition is a detestable peddler of errors, to which, alas, the Devil lends a long and tenacious life.
~ Jean Ray
The romance, alas, waned and withered but the quiche lived on.
~ Roald Dahl
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
~ Louis Untermeyer
going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when
~ Lewis Carroll
belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too
~ Lewis Carroll
You may think: What's happened? Good God, are they kidding? But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The lazy geese, like a snow cloudDripping their snow on the green grass,Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud,Who cried in goose, Alas.
~ John Crowe Ransom
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
Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.
~ Arnold Bennett
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.
~ Anne Rice
Doctors make no such exceptions to the Hippocratic Oath—save, of course, when it comes to abortion—and only then when another dogmatic obsession trumps their oath. Alas
~ Jonah Goldberg
Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
~ Paul McCartney
In the state he's in, my child, your love is of no use to him—the whole world might love him and to him it would be of no use. Alas, if only men could love not with half their heart but with the whole heart God has given us, then no one would deserve to die. But as you see, no one is immortal, and that is how the world goes around.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of the unfortunate to be tedious!
~ Sophia Lee
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not.
~ St. Augustine