A Quote by Tom Wolfe

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. — © Tom Wolfe
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.
Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
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