I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
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"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
