Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Quotations
Beauty
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"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
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
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
