We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
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"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
