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
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
