There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
