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"
Quotations
Beauty
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"
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"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
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
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
