We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
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"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
