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
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
