Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Beauty
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
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"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
