Alas Quotes

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dying
  • Means
  • Alas

• Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Truth
  • Illusion
  • Spheres

• Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • True
  • Looks

• 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!

  

  Pythagoras
  • Flesh
  • Wickedness
  • Swallow

• Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

  

  George Arnold
  • Moments
  • Beer
  • Golden

• Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Trifles
  • Alas

• Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Littles
  • Loses
  • Gaming

• Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hopeless
  • Alas
  • Friendless

• Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Artist
  • Easy
  • Paper

• Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Sports
  • Destiny
  • Alas

• 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.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Hard