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
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
