There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
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"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
