Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Quotations
Beauty
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
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"
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
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 worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
