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"
Quotations
Beauty
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
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 is where you find it.
-Madonna
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
