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
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
