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
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
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
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
