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
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
