Oh, Vanity of vanities How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are.
Vanity Quotes (251 Quotes)
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments
In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that make her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence courage without ferocity and all the virtues of man without his vices.
Oh Dear God Why wouldn't you allow those two consuming fires to be only one Why do you allow only fires aliens of each other to unite Why God I look even know deep in the eyes of my soul mate, in the eyes that were so stranger to me at the beginning. I feel it is above me, above my being, that my life has no meaning, but I also know that being together would kill us, because we would burn each other, as we both are much above the life of the other We are like the poles of a magnet which attract themselves because they are opposite, but if they were united the magnetism would disappear. This is why we will always attract ourselves seeking us in the other until death will make us forget each other in the instant of an eternal moment. Let's not forget that that moment too, no matter how eternal it is, is just a moment and nothing else. What about then Then will we seek each other restlessly again, in the infinity where we where born to die again, still wrapped in this cloak of vanity, of the impossibility of ever becoming close
Man at his best estate is vanity.
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom.
To be beneficent when we can is a duty and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations.... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration
This is not a vanity operation, it's a high-risk operation. This at least allows people who are considering this surgery to go in a little bit more with their eyes open.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
And what after all is everlasting fame All together vanity.
I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable should persist after the beauty was gone.
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy a quite vulgar vanity.
When Man will re-find himself, then demons with angels and God with the Devil will reconcile. It will be a step forward, but not enough to remove the vanity of the world. Nevertheless, man will not admit defeat, he will struggle, and he will be once again put to the test of accepting a new Original Sin, of taking the blame of the divinity on him. This time he will not accept this low bargain and will allow eternal peace between God and the Devil and between the Good in Man and the Evil in Man in this world. Then he will slowly understand in its evolution as sacerdotal being that not only does he not have Will and Knowledge, not only that he is meant to grasp this world precisely through the Knowledge he does not have, he will understand that he is only the love he does not know and which forms the only meaning of his existence in this dream of the Illusion of Life. When he will find the Sacred Self, man will stop fighting with the vanity of its own existence because he will understand that this vanity it is given to him so that he will always turn against it , that this vanity is everything that pushed him to vileness and humbleness, to false, lie, murder and theft, he will finally know that this vanity belongs only to this world that is given by the Knowledge he does not have, by the dream of this Life running towards Death.
It is not primarily the sexboozedrugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be it is rather the flaunting of affluence, assuming exaggerated expenses, a pursuit of vanity for vanity's sake - in a word, financial decadence.
Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich
Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
It takes, truly, a lack of vanity and just being able to take some risks and being OK with looking like a fool, which I am very OK with now.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just Is ferric oxide, known as rust. The grizzly bear whose potent hug Was feared by all, is now a rug. Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf, And I don't feel so well myself.
He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.
It can't come down to a question of personal vanity.
Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.
Speaking much is a sign of vanity for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
And a new day will come, and a new evening and mans Sacred Self will understand that replacing the churches of the Evil and also of the sublime in him, of that unwritten Good that could not be stolen along with the Sacred Self, will require to put something else in return, that without praying an hope, without dream and poetry, without curse and pain, without happiness and fulfilment all of this would not even be a vanity of the vanities. It would not even be an Illusion of the illusions, but a waste of time, just like many ages were wasted under this cold and torrid sun, calm or not interested by what he sees with his angelic or demonic rays, depending on the dream this undecided, dreaming and meaningless man was dreaming
It's embarrassing to admit that I'm worried about how I look when so many people have died. But it's not vanity. It's our weapon against all this, ... I just need to feel normal, and this helps, silly as it might seem.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
In Youth alone its empty
Praise we boast,
But soon the Short-liv'd
Vanity is lost!
We each have some dominant defect, by which the enemy can grasp us. In some it is vanity, in others indolence, inmost egotism. Let a cunning and evil spirit possess himself of this, and you are lost.
Women are much more like each other than men they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love these are their universal characteristics.
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.