No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
Virginia WoolfTags: inspiration beauty literature virginia-woolf vain christiana-rossetti victorian-literature
No one can know sincere happiness, without 1st knowing sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity
Fisher AmelieTags: vain
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: nobility boast vain brag useless-talents lazyness high-class-style house-of-the-seven-gables
You may have misery,” she continued, ignoring my plea, “you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you have faith and trust in adoration, in affection, in love, that sorrow will turn to happiness. And that is a constant, dear.” She breathed deeply and steadily for a moment, seemingly catching her breath.
“No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.
“And you will know honest happiness. Of that I am certain. Certain because it’s why you are here and also because here is your inevitability.
Tags: happiness love sorrow vain
Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.
Kellie ElmoreTags: beauty vanity arrogance conceit self-awareness pride ego quotes beautiful image appearances social-media appearance vain egos arrogant quotes-about-appearances quotes-about-vanity
If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.
Anthony LiccioneTags: beauty selfish value importance empty void idle vain worthless stuck-up unsatisfying
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.
Tags: greed sophie spencer vain
But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryI 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 FlynnTags: reality lies writing fantasy smile smiling liar lie ego writer pretending vain superiority-complex compulsive-lying egotistical compulsive-liar self-righteous crazy-bitch out-of-touch-with-reality vainity wannabe wannabewriter
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.
Hermann Franz Moritz KoppTags: science life experience purpose history meaning-of-life meaning effort views purpose-of-life historian alchemy scientist vain alchemists elixir elixir-of-life life-extension
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