A Quote by Vanity

'Vanity' means worthlessness.

Vanity

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Means Vanity Worthlessness

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Vanity
Canadian - Musician
January 4, 1959 - February 15, 2016

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.

Yousuf Karsh

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Eric Hoffer

Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

Saint John Chrysostom

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.

Richard Siken

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

Charles Dickens

Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

Samael Aun Weor

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

Mikhail Lermontov

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

David Foster Wallace

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

William Shakespeare

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

Carolyn Heilbrun

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

Mason Cooley

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

Simon Munnery

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

Jane Austen

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

John Bunyan

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.