Jim Nantz

You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time.

American Entertainer

Victor Hugo

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

French Author

Erica Jong

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.

American Novelist

Louis Sullivan

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.

American Architect

Fridtjof Nansen

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.

Norwegian Explorer

Sarah MacLean

Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.

American Author

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Dutch Painter

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

English Poet

P. J. O'Rourke

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

American Comedian

William Shakespeare

English Playwright

Use 'alas' to show heartfelt sorrow in response to an event or outcome.

Expressing Sadness

'Alas' is often used to introduce disappointing news more gently.

Soften Bad News

It's appropriate to use 'alas' when expressing concern for someone's misfortune.

Concern for Others

Use 'alas' to show that things haven’t gone as hoped or planned.

Disappointment

'Alas' can express your own regret over a missed opportunity or mistake.

Personal Regret

'Alas' is appropriate when reacting to a loss, whether it’s a game or investment.

Expressing Loss

'Alas' adds a poetic feeling to language, suitable for creative writing or drama.

Poetic Tone

In theater or literature, 'alas' can heighten the drama of a scene or narrative.

Dramatic Expression

Note that 'alas' might be used in historical or fantasy contexts for an old-fashioned feel.

Historical Context

 windy like this they prefer to be in the thickets and have a bit of space and so I'm not too convinced that we would actually get a decent sighting out of them hello tink are you going to wake up for us boy and come on no it was close there I thought we might even just get a little head raise out of him but alas he

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 Indeed, a great deal of civil rights struggle over the last centuries has been to punch a hole through that wall and begin to feed these human things through the wall and have them become legal persons. But alas, that hole has closed up. Now, on the other side are legal persons,

Chimps have feelings and...

 us and I keep wishing as I see it drifting into this caucus and I see it here but alas no luck so far hopefully though I'll get spoilt in 1 days yet for those of you that don't know what we're talking about the Egyptian vulture is a very very rare vulture species in fact

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 yeah alas there you have to be a certain person do this oh yeah I know I'm getting to the breaking point and I'm sure I'll get screwed on my tuna money but it is what it is I'll take not getting paid just to get away from this catastrophe that he calls the wicked pissah

Lance Romance PIPE Wicked...

 And they said, "Alas, Grandpapa, there are no handsome young men." And then the handsome young men disappeared. It's typical of these hallucinations that they may come in a flash and disappear in a flash. They don't usually fade in and out.

What hallucination...

 that it has escaped from this potential threat, and your body is now a safe place for you to be. Alas, we live in a world where the behaviors that deal with our stressors are no longer the behaviors that deal with the stress in our bodies.

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 styles the health community has to realize that video addiction and porn addiction are reality and they have to have to develop better prevention techniques and treatment techniques next alas our government has this has to now

The Demise of Guys PIPE...

 Raven off before it gets a bellyful still hungry and frustrated the raven decides to bug the Griffon vulture but alas there's no honor among thieves the Raven doesn't give up you have to admire its persistence even as you

Ravenous Raven PIPE...

 and that is a sort of loss of a sense of the future. I mean, Europe once, of course, once commanded the future in its confidence. Take the 19th century, for example. But this, alas, is no longer true.

Understanding the rise...

 hearing the word fruit I'm afraid you're hearing things what alas the word fruit was never uttered upon our stage but it isn't your ears that are to blame it is your brain

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