People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery