Vainly Quotes
53 Vainly quotes by 50 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
— Walter Scott
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Vainly Quotes
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