Quotes About Vain

Who says I'm vain?" "The comparison: your friend isn't. But I'm sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you're vain you pay attention to yourself and your affairs.

A politics is just a vain blame game where all players are largely the same irrespective of their place and position on either side of the field and they just entertain the population through debate and discussion.

A fickle goddess Thought at times-- Try ne'er so hard we catch her not. We try to think: 'tis all in vain-- Imprisoned never is a thought. Like lightning flashing through the clouds, It comes--a light, and then is gone, A star which falls adown through space, Again it comes as morning dawn.

Nihilism appears at that point, not that the displeasure at existence has become greater than before but because one has come to mistrust any meaning in suffering, indeed in existence. One interpretation has collapsed; but because it was considered the interpretation it now seems as if there were no meaning at all in existence, as if everything were in vain.

There is not a single effect in Nature, not even the least that exists, such that the most ingenious theorists can ever arrive at a complete understanding of it. This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is attained, would recognise that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.

Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily to believe those things, which are commonly spoken, by such as take upon them to work wonders, and by sorcerers, or prestidigitators, and impostors; concerning the power of charms, and their driving out of demons, or evil spirits; and the like.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!

Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Hence, all you vain delights,As short as are the nightsWherein you spend your folly!There's naught in this life sweetBut only melancholy;O sweetest melancholy!

The page is as white as my face after a night of weeping. It is as sterile as my devastated mind. All martyrdoms are in vain. He also is drowning in the blood of too much sacrifice. Lay aside the weapons, love, for all battles are lost.

But he recognized that the illusions of the child only differed from those of the man in that they were more picturesque; belief in fairies and belief in the Stock Exchange as bestowers of happiness were equally vain, but the latter form of faith was ugly as well as inept.

All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for what it is: just behavior.

This work of keeping the heart is the hardest of all. "To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon Him: this will cost something!

What a rude creature,' said Baldmoney, in a quiet tone to Sneezewort. 'How vain,' said Sneezewort; 'and he called us persons.' 'I'm waiting,' said the pheasant in a steely voice, looking over their heads. 'Well, you vain insolent creature, you can wait! We're not going out of this wood for you or anybody else!' replied Baldmoney hotly.

Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets.

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse.

To sit in darkness hereHatching vain empires.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.