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"
Quotations
Beauty
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
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
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
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 nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
