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
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
