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
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
