We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
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"
