Quotes about Vanity

In short, know this: Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash.

Remember this: in no time at all both you and he will be dead, and shortly after that not even our names will remain.

There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

Come tutte le cose rapidamente svaniscano, nel cosmo i corpi stessi, nel tempo il loro ricordo;

Before long, either ashes or a skeleton, and either just a name or not even that

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

What well-to-do and once-young, once-beautiful woman or man, cranked up on hormonal supplements and shot full of vitamins but hampered by the unforgiving mirror, wouldn't sell their house, their gated retirement villa, their kids, and their soul to get a second kick at the sexual can?

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

I loved exceedingly to converse on religious subjects, indeed I took no pleasure in any worldly concerns, and found all worldly possessions vain.