Quotes About Vanity

Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

The same people who believe that all-powerful modern truism that "Image is Everything," also believe everything they read in Vanity Fair.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.

They ... know from experience better than almost any other nation on earth how transient are material achievements and pomp and glory. ... the New Order pointed to the ruins of Persepolis as reminders of what Iran had once been and must strive to be again. The Iranian people also see in those ruins a monument to the vanity of human success.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

Satan's extortion is powerless without the addiction to a good public name.

One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair."4

La facturación es vanidad, los beneficios son sentido común».

But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”

Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ëWhere is he?í

He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.