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
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
