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
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
