#vain

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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.


Theodor Adorno


#continuing #disappointed #finding #man #out

Open your eyes.” Julia looked up into a pair of blue orbs that were startlingly clear and very emotional, but she could not decipher the emotions. He smiled and pressed his lips to her forehead again before rolling onto his back and gazing up at the stars. “What are you thinking?” She shifted herself so that she was curled up at his side, close to but not touching him with her body. “I was thinking about how I waited for you. I waited and waited, and you never came.” He smiled at her sadly. “I’m sorry, Gabriel.” “You’re here now. Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra.” “I don’t know what that means.” She sounded shy. “It means now your blessedness appears. But really, it should be now my blessedness appears. Now that you’re here.” He pulled her closer, snaking his arm beneath her neck and down to her waist where he splayed his hand, fingers wide, at the small of her back. “For the rest of my life, I’ll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name.


Sylvain Reynard


#sylvain-reynard #dreams

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.


Bodhidharma


#important #life #life and death #suffer #them

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.


Andre Breton


#appeals #attempts #examples #exist #making

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.


Jacques Lacan


#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

How vain, without the merit, is the name.


Homer


#merit #name #vain #without

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.


Padma Lakshmi


#any #better #character #clothes #hide

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.


James McHenry


#bible #draw #increase #institutions #laws

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.


Charles Eliot Norton


#before #crime #defense #national #peace

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.


Gary Numan


#hair #i #important #job #just