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
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
