There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
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"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
