Vanitatum Vanitas Quotes & Sayings

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already. — Bertolt Brecht

You realise good girls don't really go to heave, right? — Stephanie Tromly

Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence
whose fundamental feeling is and remains that man is the free being in a world of unfreedom, the external miracle worker whether he does good or ill, the astonishing exception, the superbeast and almost-god, the meaning of creation which cannot be thought away, the solution of the cosmic riddle, the mighty ruler over nature and the despiser of it, the creature which calls its history world history!
Vanitas vanitatum homo. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers. — Sharon Draper

Death was not a door you could open and close at will. — Valery G. Olsen

Gabrielle opened the fridge, which was held shut with a strip of gaff tape, and pulled out sliced white bread, margarine and plastic cheese. It was the only time Lenny had seen ants running out of a fridge. — Caroline Shaw

Jonathan Haidt said in another context, The emotional tail wags the rational dog. — Daniel Kahneman

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. — Frederick Locker-Lampson

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record. — Jason Schwartzman

What does it mean to be me? I don't know. Maybe that's just it. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe all I am is emptiness, is nothing. — Katherine Ewell

Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life. — Michael Kitson

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine. — Debi Thomas

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child. — Mallory Ortberg

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street. — Karl Lagerfeld

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more. — John Berryman

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do. — Sam Altman

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. — William Makepeace Thackeray