There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
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"
