There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
