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Alas. I am not an option. — Laini Taylor

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. — Robert Baldwin Ross

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! — Teresa Of Avila

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.
Yet love me
wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. — George Eliot

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

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many. — Caroline Knapp

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago. — Piet Hein

What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong. — Voltaire

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals. — Seth

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. — Stephane Mallarme

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long. — Hannah More

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 spheres of truth are less transparent than those of
illusion. — L. E. J. Brouwer

Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option. — Kenneth Eade

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! — Charles Lamb

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again — George MacDonald

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope

Alas! it is a fearful thing
To feel another's guilt! — Oscar Wilde

Alas for a love whose fire is extinct,
A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols! — Muhammad Iqbal

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong. — Sophocles

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. — Stephane Mallarme

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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. — Alexander Pope

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. — Charles Spurgeon

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 for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alas! when passion is both meek and wild! — John Keats

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

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. — Thomas Mallon

Alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. — Elizabeth Inchbald

Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? — Matthew Arnold

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal. — Charles Baudelaire

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man. — Louis Sullivan

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we
For such as we are made of, such we be — William Shakespeare

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. — Robert Muller

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. — George Carlin

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in — Laura Marling

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. — Nancy Mairs

Alas, how love can trifle with itself! — William Shakespeare

Some of us, alas, are destined to find our escapes in novels, not life. — Michael Dirda

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. — Sargent Shriver

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

One would think he'd become a Master Jedi at by now, but alas, "no" was not in his Webster. — Kelly Moran

Alas, that they are so!
To die even when they to perfection grow! — William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! — William Shakespeare

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows. — Bill Peet

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed. — Junot Diaz

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring. — Mason Cooley

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Alas! how easily things go wrong! — George MacDonald

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! — Joan Of Arc

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side. — George William Russell

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

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away. — Friedrich Schiller

Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten. — Stephen R. Lawhead

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. — Thomas Adams

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine. — William S. Burroughs

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse. — Pierre Corneille

Two souls alas! are dwelling in my breast — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas. — Rose Macaulay

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written. — James Nicoll

World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes. — M.F. Moonzajer

Alas, if worth be based on beauty,
Snow White has surpassed you, cutie. — James Finn Garner

How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present! — John Newton

Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave. — William Shakespeare

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one. — Fred Reinfeld

But, O alas! so long, so far,
Our bodies why do we forbear? — John Donne

I believed, when I entered this convent,
I was escaping from myself, but alas,
poor me, I brought myself with me! — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? — Jean-Baptiste Say

Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it. — Whipplesnaith

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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. — Erica Jong

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom. — Apostolos Doxiadis

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! — Ninon De L'Enclos

Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Love's young dream, alas is over
Yet my strains of love shall hover — Jan Ellison

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. — William Shakespeare

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself. — Mark Twain

You know the people," said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time. — O. Douglas

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. — Mason Cooley

Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward. — Jacqueline Carey

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. — Henry David Thoreau

Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases. — Paul Kalanithi

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! — H. Rider Haggard

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. — Vincent Van Gogh

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere. — Bruce Sterling

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride. — Lydia Sigourney

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! — Thomas Hood

He used the haunting phrase, Alas for what has been lost. — Mitch Albom

Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain. — James Joyce

Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to? — Jane Austen

Belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too — Lewis Carroll