Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. — Epicurus
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I… — Jane Austen
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to… — Mark Helprin
Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've… — Anne Frank
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. — Max Ehrmann
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. — Marcel Proust
The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. — Jack Kerouac
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. — Helen Keller
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It… — John Jakes
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to… — Margaret Weis
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and… — Henry James
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But… — John Gresham Machen
We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom… — Shannon Hale
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so… — Simone de Beauvoir
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… — Joseph Conrad

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