There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
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"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
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
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
