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
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
