Vapor Quotes

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Character, Wings

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• Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Eye, Life Is, Blink

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• The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

  Paracelsus

  Life, Stars, Sunshine

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• Man's life is but a jest,
  A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

  George Walter

  Dream, Men, Air

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• To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

  Neal Stephenson

  Nuance, Facts

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.60, Spectra

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• This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

  John Muir

  Life, Time, Nature

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Reputation, Oblivion

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Kissing, Southern

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.32, Penguin

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• The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

  Diane Ackerman

  Knowing, Mind, Wrecks

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• The grand show is eternal
  It is always sunrise somewhere

  John Muir

  Sunrise, Nature Beauty, Gloaming

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

  John Donne

  Kissing, Break Off, Two

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.316

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• All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Perfection, Flying

  William Butler Yeats (1957). “The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats”

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• Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine,
  Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.

  Mos Def

  Weed, Stars, Rap

  Song: Respiration

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• Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Fire, Sky

  "Poems" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

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• All that in this world is great or gay,
  Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

  Edmund Spenser

  Gay, Decay, World

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• Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Oil

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.2014, Library of Alexandria

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Stars, Light, Way

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• O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

  Lord Byron

  Money, Gold, Credit

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• I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Jealousy, Vapour

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Clouds, Sea, Land

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• Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.

  Peter Prange

  Book, Teaching, Healing

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• The curse of marriage
  That we can call these delicate creatures ours
  And not their appetites!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Adultery, Appetite

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dream, Dark, Men

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• Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Shadow, Covering

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