If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Beauty
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
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"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
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 something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
