Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
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
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
