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!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.
John McCarthy

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

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles

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

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

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

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
Titus

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
Pola Negri

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond to-day.
Thomas Gray

Alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

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

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel De Cervantes

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Ovid

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

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.
Laurence Sterne

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Jane Grey