Vainly Quotes

53 Vainly quotes by 50 unique authors

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in,… — Arthur Hugh Clough
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and… — Horace
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. — H P Lovecraft
In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm… — Robert E. Howard
Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor… — Pope Clement I
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially… — Criss Jami
The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are… — Criss Jami
L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love. — Blaise Pascal
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. — Michel de Montaigne
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. — Walter Scott
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even… — Vladimir Nabokov
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will… — Aldous Huxley
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,… — Juliet Marillier
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which… — Salman Rushdie
She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if… — Lawrence Durrell
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love… — Anthony Bourdain
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do.… — Dallas Willard
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about… — Anatole France
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the… — Abraham Lincoln
Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine… — James Allen
We don't seek to escape this life by dreaming of heaven. But we do find we can endure this life because of the certainty of… — John Macarthur

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