There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
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"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
