Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

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 Snowâ€™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
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still… — H.G. Wells
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as… — John Newton
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. — Megan Whalen Turner
Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again. — Abdul Kalam
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. — Immanuel Kant

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