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
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
