Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Quotations
Beauty
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"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
