Words matter. These are the best Alas Quotes from famous people such as Dean Ornish, Sophocles, Stephane Mallarme, William Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
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.
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can’t seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks.
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can’t get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
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 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.
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
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!
In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled ‘My Best Western Story’ in which the genre’s leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain’t; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can’t stop.
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future – who can, alas? – it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
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.
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.
The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos. I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
For a long time, I’ve had a recurring dream – I dream I don’t have to write any more, that I’m free. I’m not free, alas; I’m still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it’s never finished.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
