Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
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"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
