We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
