Quotes about Vanity

19 quotes about Vanity

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for...

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about vanity

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about vanity

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Quote by Jane Austen about vanity

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of...

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Quote by Jane Austen about vanity

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about vanity

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about vanity

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity...

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Quote by Franz Kafka about vanity

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, ...

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about vanity

Vanity is but the surface.

Vanity is but the surface.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about vanity

Vanity of science, knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about vanity

Death is all that Life isn’t as Life is all that Death...

Death is all that Life isn’t as Life is all that Death isn’t but both of them define each other eternally into vanity!

Quote by Sorin Cerin about vanity

Always keep your head up in life, even when you will feel lonely because I am and I will always be with you, even when our bodies will be dust and ashes for a long time, even when the oceans will dry up and the water of life will be long drunken...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about vanity

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death? That we live in this life in which we hope to have the chance to love, so to die? Let me drink from the glass of your voluptuousness down to the depths of my being so...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about vanity

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves? Why don't they want to admit that they would want to love with their entire being because this is everything that remains out of this vanity called Life?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about vanity

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about vanity

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other...

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Quote by Robert Southey about vanity

Vanity Suddenly the limpid stupor of the immensity towers above the debris And the man bent over the water surprised by the sun discovers a shadow Wafting in pieces and gently floating away

Quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti about vanity

When you are eliminating the vanity, you can exist in literature, because you find other arguments for the fact that you are existing, less vanitous and the things are then back to normal, in a more acceptable order.

Quote by Dinu Flamand about vanity

The vanity is, utimately, opacity, dark inability to admit that on the world there are other human beings apart from your charming person. The hypocrisy of despair

Quote by Teodor Mazilu about vanity

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