Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Beauty
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"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
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
