There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
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"
