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"
Quotations
Beauty
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
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"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
