
„If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
A collection of quotes on the topic of women, beauty, likeness, thing.
„If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
„Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.“
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
„Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.“
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 BC
„There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
„Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.“
— Charlie Chaplin British comic actor and filmmaker 1889 - 1977
Calvero's answer to Terry's question: "What is there to fight for?" in Limelight (1952)
Context: Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.
„Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.“
— Khalil Gibran Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883 - 1931
„There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.“
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
„In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.“
— Aristotle, book Parts of Animals
Book I, 645a.16
Parts of Animals
Original: (el) Ἐν πᾶσι γὰρ τοῖς φυσικοῖς ἔνεστί τι θαυμαστόν.
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„Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.“
— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
— Marek Żukow-Karczewski Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist 1961
Enchanted by beauty (three forgotten relations), "Aura" 1, 1998-01, p. 17-19. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-article-d2f0773c-592e-4250-8f73-558234a9140e?q=3c417fdf-4051-4e84-83b2-9eb4fc33b1e0$1&qt=IN_PAGE
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
„Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian poet and writer 1875 - 1926
from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.
Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
„My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece“
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
„Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
Source: Live Aid, 1985/07/13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22oy8dFjqc?t=12m5s
„The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.“
— Maryam Mirzakhani Iranian mathematician 1977 - 2017
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/interview-maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-winner-mathematician
„No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.“
— John Donne English poet 1572 - 1631
No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1
Elegies
Source: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
„Anything forced is not beautiful“
— Xenophon ancient Greek historian and philosopher -430 - -354 BC
Source: The Art of Horsemanship
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
This statement was attributed to Goering in at least one book on World War II, but it was removed from the English Wikipedia page on him on grounds that it was not actually verified that Goering had ever said it.
Disputed
Context: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked.
— NasserTone Nasser Ali Albahrani is a director, cinematographer, photographer, producer, & YouTuber, who was born on April 3, 1994,… 1994
Vice Magazine Article (July 18, 2018)
„Mimì never forgets to see the beauty in life.“
— Megan Marie Hart American opera singer 1983
Original: (de) Mimi vergisst nie, die Schönheit im Leben zu sehen, und ist nicht verbittert.
Variant: Mimi never forgets to see the beauty in life and is not bitter.
Source: https://www.frizzmag.de/kultur-freizeit/kultur--buehne/La-Boheme-neue-Version-Staatstheater/
Context: Mimì is a character in Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. Although she is terminally ill, she enjoys life.
„When You've lost it all…. that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.“
— Nikki Sixx American musician 1958
Variant: When You've lost it all.... thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
— Mary Oliver American writer 1935 - 2019
"So every day"
Red Bird (2008)
„To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.“
— Jean Vanier Canadian humanitarian 1928 - 2019
— Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993
"Packard Goose"
"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
Variant: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
„Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.“
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
Source: Meditations
„Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.“
— Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
— Marie Curie French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867 - 1934
Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (14 May 1921)
„Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.“
— Raphael Italian painter and architect 1483 - 1520
Quote from: 1001 quotations to inspire you before you die; Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4
„I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.“
— Coco Chanel French fashion designer 1883 - 1971
As quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymarie
Context: 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.
— Leon Trotsky Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879 - 1940
Trotsky's Testament (1940)
Context: Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
„We had a beautiful dream and that was all.“
— Marie Antoinette last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution 1755 - 1793
The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.
Marie Antoinette to the Chevalier Jarjayes on his persuading her to escape alone from the Tower; Lettres, II. p. 433; also quoted in Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001) by Antonia Fraser, ISBN 0307277747.
„Elegance is the only beauty that never fades“
Source: https://totalgirlboss.com/cassea-swim/
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
Variant: Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834
Source: The Complete Poems
„Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.“
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
— Jawaharlal Nehru Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India 1889 - 1964
As quoted in Building A Life Of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 74
„The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.“
— Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888
Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
„Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different“
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
— Francis S. Collins Geneticist; Director of the National Institutes of Health 1950
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006), p. 211
„True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.“
— Yukio Mishima Japanese author 1925 - 1970
„The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.“
— Yves Saint Laurent fashion designer 1936 - 2008
„There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.“
— Gianni Agnelli Italian businessman 1921 - 2003
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
— Alex Jones American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker 1974
Alex Jones: The "Justin Biebler" Rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDMB0KyhPN8, 21 February 2011.
2011
— Rich Mullins American christian musician 1955 - 1997
Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/louisville-kentucky-jun2594.html (June 25, 1994)
In Concert
„Lesson one: If you're ever in a beautiful cathedral, take your hat off!“
— Ben Kowalewicz musician 1975
From "The Diary of Billy Talent":
— Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967
<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span>
From Poetry
„Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.“
— Edgar Allan Poe, book The Philosophy of Composition
"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
„Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!“
— Georges Bizet French composer 1838 - 1875
Starement of 3 August 1867, as quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 115
— Hafez Persian poet 1326 - 1389
Source: Odes, CXLIII, in Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, translated from the Persian, by Herman Bicknell (1875), p. 197; quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 59
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 521
— Xenophon ancient Greek historian and philosopher -430 - -354 BC
Words spoken by Socrates to Antiphon in Memorabilia, 1.6.11.
„Isn't it bewildering … that everything is so beautiful, despite all the horrors that exist?“
— Sophie Scholl White Rose member 1921 - 1943
As quoted in O<sub>2</sub> : Breathing New Life Into Faith (2008) by Richard Dahlstrom, p. 223; this source is disputed as it does not cite an original document for the quote.
Disputed
Context: Isn't it bewildering … that everything is so beautiful, despite all the horrors that exist? Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering into my sheer joy in all that is lovely — the sense of a Creator whom innocent creation worships with its beauty. Only man can be hateful or ugly, because he possesses a free will to cut himself off from the chorus of praise. It often seems that he will succeed in drowning out this chorus with his cannon thunder, curses, and blasphemy. But it has become clear to me this spring that he cannot. And so I must try to throw myself on the side of the victor.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss philosopher and poet 1821 - 1881
30 December 1850
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our heads and shines there but an instant; so, in the heaven of the mind each thought touches its zenith but once, and in that moment all its brilliancy and all its greatness culminate. Artist, poet, or thinker, if you want to fix and immortalize your ideas or your feelings, seize them at this precise and fleeting moment, for it is their highest point. Before it, you have but vague outlines or dim presentiments of them. After it you will have only weakened reminiscence or powerless regret; that moment is the moment of your ideal.
— John Chrysostom important Early Church Father 349 - 407
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html
„Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.“
— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
— Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942
I had barely got to the end of the sentence when she closed her eyes and gently slipped away. She was unique, and the world is a better place for having known her. I love you, Linda. note: Last words to his wife, Linda, as recounted by McCartney in a statement released to the press three days after her death
Source: as quoted in "Linda's Death 'Heartbreak' for McCartney" https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=99480655 by Emma Ross, Tucson Citizen (April 21, 1998), p. B1
„Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.“
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
Source: Little Women
— George Soros Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930
Source: The Alchemy of Finance
„Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.“
— Bashō Matsuo Japanese poet 1644 - 1694
„Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.“
— William Morris author, designer, and craftsman 1834 - 1896
„To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.“
— Sharon G. Flake, book The Skin I'm In
Source: The Skin I'm In
— Max Ehrmann American writer, poet, and attorney 1872 - 1945
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
„Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.“
— Ellen DeGeneres American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress 1958
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding