Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Quotations
Beauty
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
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
