Quotes About Vain

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

They'd like the world to think they're hot snot on a gold platter. But really, they're just cold boogers on a paper plate.

A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

And long we try in vain to speak and actOur hidden self, and what we say and doIs eloquent, is well—but 'tis not true!

Those that name the name of Christ, but do not depart from iniquity, as that name binds them to do, name it in vain; their worship is vain

The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus

As Schopenhauer remarked: 'With possession, or the certain expectation of it, our demands immediately increase and this increases our capacity for further possessions and greater expectation…to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is.

Life is brutally short, and there's only one go at it. We don't go for the old myths about helping somebody as we travel along life's path or our living will have been in vain. It's for now. Not tomorrow. But now.

You only love when you love in vain. Try another radio probe when ten have failed, take two hundred rabbits when a hundred have died: only this is science. You ask the secret. It has just one name: again.

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the opposite direction: fearing and condemning any advances toward the idea as necessarily selling out the goal itself. The tragedy is that these sectarians, in condemning all advances that fall short of the goal, serve to render vain and futile the cherished goal itself.

A voice may whisper that it was no image, but only imagination; it was a mirage, a fantasy. But as the water settles, with gentle ripples still visible where the arrows went in, the image will return. We will gaze at it once more, and know that in the Lord our labour is not in vain.

American planes circled the clear blue sky of late fall. We stood in front of the Miyoshino-style building and looked up at them. "They're flying around in vain." "Yeah," Mabo said with a smile.

Already several prophecies of ours have applied to insignificant trifles, and what rests upon dreams is apt to be vain. (The Circle of Myths: Cyrus)

The Arabians might not suit you; they don't suit everyone. They are like cats: vain, beautiful, and intelligent. But you deal well enough with Asil, who is also vain, beautiful, and intelligent.

Since thou and those who died with thee for rightHave died, the Present teaches, but in vain!

Most vain all hope but love. - Prometheus Unbound

you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit." – LEVITICUS 26:16-20

Bragg was obstinate yet without firmness, ruthless without enterprise, crafty yet without stratagem, suspicious, envious, jealous, vain, a bantam in success and a dunghill in disaster."15

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.í”

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ëWhy do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?