alas Quotes

“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!”

“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”

“We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.”

“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.”

“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”

“Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!”

“O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.”

“Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.”

“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.”