Top 13 Quotes About Vanitas
#1. An empty skull is the vanitas symbol of modern education.
Bauvard
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.
Moby
#6. Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#7. Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
Socrates
#8. It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done ... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life.
Brandon Adams
#10. you do not know how to give a good counsel, it is better
William Loehe
#11. An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
Dorothy Day
#12. My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.
Daphne Guinness