Quotes about Vanity

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.' You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is 'success', the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.

I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps.

Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.