Vain Quotes
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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.
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Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.
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Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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It's so rare, actors who are not vain.
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Christ is a rock in a weary land, a covert from the tempest of Divine justice, receiving through the ages the snows of Divine mercy, and melting them for the green pastures and still waters of God's peaceful flock — a rock against which wicked men and devils have breathed their empty curses in vain, for eighteen hundred years.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
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It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
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You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.
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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.
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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
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Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
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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.
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Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
