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
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
