Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Beauty
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"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
