How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people… — Stella Blum Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take… — Elizabeth Chase Allen Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
