“The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.” StillsNightStreetsBirdMiseryVicesDuesVanityWheelsHallsRollingTrafficMidnightHere And ThereChariots Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books
“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.” YearsStillsSimpleHeardFairsEarsNotesVanityGentleScareVanity Fair Book:London Lyrics Source: London Lyrics
“While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.” StillsBeautifulPrideFineVanityGestures Author:Eugene O'Neill
“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.” StillsFeelingsDesireFeltNaturalStrangeComfortableNewsUnderstoodSkinsEnvySensesVanityEnjoyedScarDirtIntriguingStill In LoveNew Feelings Author:Jim Morrison