“One who weeps for the sake of worldly objects, O Baba, weeps totally in vain.”
Guru Nanak
“Defrauded by Maya and worldly affairs, the weepers weep. They weep for the sake of worldly affairs, and they do not wash off their own filth, the world is a dream.”
“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”
William Shakespeare
“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them”
Anatole France
“And weep the more, because I weep in vain.”
Thomas Gray
“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau