Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
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
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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
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"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
