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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
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"
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
