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
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
