Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Quotations
Beauty
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
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
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
