A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
