Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

Emperors are vain and useless things. — Scott Westerfeld
If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If… — Emily Dickinson
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary… — H P Lovecraft
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no… — Susan Kay
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of… — Jonathan Swift
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could… — Charles Bukowski
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back… — Joan Didion
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill… — Sarah Dessen
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect… — Marcel Proust
Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and… — John Locke
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final… — Immanuel Kant
You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. — Gunter Grass
Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They… — Suzanne Collins
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. — Elie Wiesel
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the… — Michael Jackson
Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a… — Vincent Van Gogh
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother… — Donald Woods Winnicott
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray
What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal.… — Julia Quinn
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those… — Pablo Neruda
Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because,… — James Patterson
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at… — Edith Wharton
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were… — Alain de Botton

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