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"
Quotations
Beauty
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
