Vain Quotes

“Clichés so often befall vain people.”
― Ann Beattie, Walks With Men

“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.”
― Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley

“Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace”
― Cassandra Clare

“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details or useless conventions. Scanning the reach on the horizon and challenging our imagination can allow us to recognize the essentials of our human condition and achieve harmony in our lives.
("Dirty bike)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Let us stop wracking our brains with vain and futile stories but keep it loosey-goosey without missing a beat of our life in our pursuit for authenticity.( "If he doesn't play ball")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”
― Virginia Woolf

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand.”
― Jess C. Scott, Sven

“I can’t do that,” he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street.
“Why not?”
His face softened. “I need his money.”
Spencer looked at me and I couldn’t help but stare back. We were all in the same boat, prisoners to GREED.”
― Fisher Amelie, Greed

“It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

“In vain you beg, in vain you ache,
in vain you've opened your wrecked heart wide.
Perhaps in heaven the rainclouds quake
because we both have cried?”
― Gabriele D'Annunzio

“Me and my pain
You & your vain”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“In vain you beg, in vain you ache,
in vain you’ve opened your wrecked heart wide.
Perhaps in heaven the rainclouds quake
because we both have cried?

This pain of ours is without a wing.
The fainthearted cry can never fly.
Weep and pray! What god is coming
by the path of the stars up high?

Abandon yourself to the dust
and upon it fall in surrender.
Our great mother is ever so just
to every sinner who kisses her.

Within a Hell of godless emptiness
submit yourself ever more to sleep’s spell.
All is a dream, all is nothingness:
the flower of the world is the asphodel.

(Trans. Michael Shindler)”
― Gabriele D'Annunzio

“No one was created in vain”
― Sunday Adelaja

“People have always been vain. Can you imagine what it was like when some guy invented the first mirror? Maidens probably spent all day and night just staring at their own reflection in the dim candle light of their drafty castle tower, back when the first mirrors were cutting edge technology.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance

“Nations are merely collections of people and like them can be vain, foolish, and violent.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Against a heart inflamed with love,
burning with unquenchable fire,
a ruthless tyrant, cruelly armed,
wages war, but all in vain.
From every attack a victor,
Love will always triumph.

- Rosina”
― Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville

“Religion without righteousness of Faith is vain hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Not speaks one who spoke,
There speaks one who wilt speak,
May another find what he will speak!
Not a teller of tales after they happen.
This has been done before ;
Nor a teller of what might be said,
This is vain endeavor, it is lies.
And none will recall his name to others.
I say this in accord with what I have seen:
From the first generation to those who come after,
They imitate that which is past.”
― Miriam Lichtheim

“I shall not live in vain. I pledge aliegence to the Lord Jesus Christ, my Saviour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I shall not live in vain.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I shall not live in vain but to be lead by the holy vision.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Tozl was an agent of the state without any real agency—a silk-clad servant smiling his way to the center of the vortex.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Vainer you are, faster you fade.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing.”
― Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

“Why did humans wish to have their fingernails polished and decorated with paint?”

“Because they were vain,” replied Parent_2. “It was one of their many flaws.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human: A Novel