If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Beauty
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"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
