#vanity

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#different #different person #getting #into #like

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#behind #contempt #impersonal #personal #their

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy

Vanity is but the surface. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#vanity

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#always #console #ignorance #knowledge #me

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. ↗

— Jason Patric

#blurred #cover #fair #great #important

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? ↗

— Lou Reed

#anything #art #artist #artwork #how