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
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
