Vacuity Quotes
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
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More Vacuity Quotes
In indolent vacuity of thought.
william cowper— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book IV. The Winter Evening, line 297.
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.
sarah grimké— Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, Letter 8 (1837)
There is no fashion so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer.
— Chapter 2, section 2: The Self as Nought (II)
Of all the people insistently expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing headlines to trample him flat.
russell baker— "Introduction" (p.14)
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
wendell berry— "The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union" in Entries (1997)
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
— Theodore Roosevelt, in "National Duties" an address at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul (2 September 1901), later in The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
