Northern Exposure (TV Series)

All Is Vanity (1991)

John Corbett: Chris Stevens

Quotes 

• Chris Stevens : The fact that we don't know this man isn't important really, 'cause his experience is our experience, and his fate up here is our fate.

  Chris Stevens : "Vanitas vanitatum, vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.", Says the preacher. "All is vanity."

  Chris Stevens : I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us.

  Chris Stevens : When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame and family, friends, we all face death alone.

  Chris Stevens : But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life.

  Chris Stevens : I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are.

  Chris Stevens : "Vanitas vanitatum, e omnia vanitas."

  Chris Stevens : "Only when we understand all is vanity, only then it isn't. "