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 a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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
