Vain Quotes

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

I have been vain since birth.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

An old dog barks not in vain.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most - it can be your arms, your chest, your legs - and emphasize that.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.