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
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
