Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
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"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
