Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
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"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
