Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
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"
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
