A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
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"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
