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
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
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
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
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
