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"
Quotations
Beauty
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
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"
