Love Quote by Julian Barnes

“It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy,…

— Betrand Russell

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Fearing the judgment of others I condemned myself … failing in my quest for perfection the oppressive weight of judgment steadily pressing upon my…

— David W. Earle LPC

“But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

— Jane Austen

“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to…

— Benjamin Constant

“It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;”

— Mark Twain

“O you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me, you do not know…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Under no circumstances should you ever fall for the seductive attraction of self-pity! Acting like a victim threatens who you truly are. You are…

— Tony Warrick

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch