Quotes about Vanity
Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all. (The Message of the Old Testament, p. 536)
— Mark Dever
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
— Helen Keller
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
— John Milton
Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
— John Milton
To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors.
— John Piper
O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.
— John Piper
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
— Ellen White
The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.
— Ellen White
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
— Emily Bronte
Censorship is the height of vanity.
— Martha Graham