Quotes about Vanity
They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
- Psalm 94:4
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- Proverbs 11:7
Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.
- Proverbs 25:14
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.
- Proverbs 27:2
for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
- Proverbs 27:24
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 1:14
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 1:17
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
- Ecclesiastes 2:2
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 2:16