There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
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"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
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 truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore