Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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 illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
