Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Quotations
Beauty
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
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, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
