Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Beauty
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
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"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
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"
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"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
