Vapor Quotations

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

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

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

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

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

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

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

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

I am declined Into the vale of years.

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

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.