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
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
