#vain

Julia closed her eyes and concentrated on the words to Lacrimosa, sung loudly and hauntingly by the multi-voice choir in Latin… Day of Weeping,on which will rise from ashes guilty man for judgment. So have mercy, O Lord, on this man. Compassionate Lord Jesus, grant them rest. Amen. What is wrong with Gabriel that he listens to this over and over again? And what does it say about me that I can’t help but feel close to him when I listen to it? All I’ve done is replace his photograph with his cd — I’m just not sleeping with it under my pillow. I am one sick puppy. ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#sylvain-reynard #judgment

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#unrequited-love #vain #love

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#vanity #men

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#cumulative #democracy #education #history #inheritance

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#generous #greatest #greedy #i #i think

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#bitter #cold #cruelty #fruit #love

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great man #great men #history #lives

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#hope #make #people #politics #vain