In Vain Quotes (7 quotes)

“Those who cry out the truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent or come to doubt their own wit.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

tags: giving-up, in-vain, iris-murdoch, the-black-prince, unheeded

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“How can I shut down
If you don't open up??”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

tags: challenge, communication, confidence, couples, declaration-of-love, feedback, feelings, giving, gossip, heart, in-vain, lack, love, meaning, meeting, mention, miscommunication, no-chance, open, receiving, relate, relationships, rivals, searching, shut, shut-down, shut-up, struggles, suffer, talkative, talking, tension, tough-love, trust, untrusting, untrustworthy, vain, verbal, verbalizing, verborragic, wordsworth, worfs

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“I cannot say anything about going away. I cannot say anything even in this diary. Perhaps it is better not to say anything ever. I must try not to say anything more to Eddie, when I have said things it has always been a mistake.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

tags: elizabeth-bowen, futile, in-vain, left-unsaid, mistake, no-words, suffer-in-silence, the-death-of-the-heart, unspoken

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“If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

tags: ambition, assegid-habtewold, glorious, grand, in-vain, mission, success-pathways, toil, vision

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“Mig angrer av mit hjertens grund
jeg bogen skulde lære
at jeg for alt det jeg har slitt
fik intet andet til profit
end umag og besvære.
Hvad har vi nu, fordi vi gik
vel 20 aars tid i skole,
Og mangt et slag i Haanden fik,
samt banket rygg og kjole?”
― Petter Dass

tags: education, futility, in-vain, mammon, money, plutocracy, punishment, schooling

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“Кто бежит наперегонки со временем, обзаводится недругом, коему не страшны прискорбные случайности.”
― Helen DeWitt

tags: eternity, in-vain

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“I have drafts about your neck on my lips like a library has shelves. It was all in vain and you were all in my veins.”
― Dominic Riccitello

tags: body, in-love, in-vain, thinking-of-you, thoughts, veins

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