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 could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
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
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
