Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
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"
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"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
