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
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
