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
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
