There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
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"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
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"
