Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
