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"
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
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"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
