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Tag Name "Alas" (267)

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Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
Friedrich Schiller
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
Lord Byron
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Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!
Louise Colet
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.
George MacDonald
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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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!
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
Edgar Allan Poe
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Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
Helen Rowland
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Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
Henry David Thoreau
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Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
Matthew Arnold
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Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
Emile Gaboriau
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.
L. E. J. Brouwer
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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.
Euripides
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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.
Honore de Balzac
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Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Horace
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
James O'Donnell Bennett
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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
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus
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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
William Shakespeare
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