Quotes About Vanity

I do not think that there is so much wretchedness in us as vanity; we are not so much wicked as daft; we are not so much full of evil as of inanity; we are not so much pitiful as despicable.

Man is indeed an object miraculously vain, various and wavering. It is difficult to found a judgement on him which is steady and uniform.

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.

Não há uma única coisa tão vazia e carente quanto tu, que abraças o universo: és o escrutador sem conhecimento, o magistrado sem jurisdição e, ao final, o bobo da farsa.

Kjærligheten er en lidenskap som blander et ganske lite kvantum solid substans sammen med et langt større kvantum forfengelighet og feberfantasier.

jamás la filosofía me parece tan razonable como cuando combate y reconoce nuestra presunción y vanidad, cuando de buena fe confiesa la irresolución, debilidad e ignorancia humanas.

I, who boast of embracing the pleasures of life so assiduously and so particularly, find in them, when I look at them thus minutely, virtually nothing but wind. But what of it? We are all wind.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

My wife, although still with her arm in a sling, was so much better this morning that she took care of me. I was amused to hear her ask for some white ointment which she put over her brows to conceal the fact that her eyebrows had been singed. Her returning vanity was a good sign.

Ah, professor, if only you had discovered a way of rejuvenating hair!" Chapter 2

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.

And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.

What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-powering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words. Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word!

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake.

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

Quello che l'attirava verso lo specchio non era la vanità bensì la meraviglia di vedere il proprio io. Dimenticava che stava guardando il quadro di comando dei meccanismi del corpo. Credeva di vedere la sua anima che le si rivelava nei tratti del suo viso. Dimenticava che il naso non è che l'estremità di un tubo che porta aria ai polmoni. In esso vedeva l'espressione fedele del proprio carattere.

Havia outrora um filósofo cínico que se exibia nas ruas de Atenas vestido com uma túnica esburacada, para que todos o admirassem vendo-o ostentar o seu desprezo pelas convenções. Um dia, Sócrates encontra-o e diz-lhe: Vejo a tua vaidade pelo buraco da tua túnica. Também a sua porcaria senhor, é uma vaidade, e a sua vaidade uma porcaria.

Tinha um rosto bonito e vazio. Suficientemente bonito para atrair os homens e suficientemente vazio para deixar que nele se perdessem todas as suas súplicas. Além disso, era um rosto orgulhoso,e Jakub sabia: orgulhoso não da sua boniteza, mas do seu vazio.

Everyone has trouble accepting the fact he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.

battles over job and career, over every picture published. She had never been ambitious out of vanity. All she ever wanted was to escape from her mother's world. Yes, she saw it with absolute clarity: no matter how enthusiastic she was about taking pictures, she could just as easily have turned her enthusiasm to any other endeavour. Photography was nothing but a way of getting at 'something higher' and living beside Thomas.