There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
