There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
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"
