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"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
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"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
