Quotes about beauty

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“My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.”

“There's nothing wrong with you.. not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter”

“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”

“Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.”

“Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.”

“James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.”

“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”

“I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.”

“When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.”

“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”

“Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.”

“I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”

“She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence… they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good…”

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

“A beautiful woman can make herself
look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”

“Massie's frindship is something that has to be earned. Not because she's beautiful or popular but because she's loyal.”

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”

“The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.”

“She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.”

“There are in life a few moments so beautiful, that even words are a sort of profanity.”

“I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?”

“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells…”

“The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.”

“Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful”

“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”

“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn’t have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”

“The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex”

“You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.”

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

“It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.”

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

“Piper patted his shoulder. “Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.”

“… beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.”

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”

“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”

“There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.”

“I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.”

“Black as night and as beautiful as forever.”

“Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.”

“But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.”

“A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.”

“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”

“Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.”

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness”

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”

“It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”

“i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows”

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

“Beauty is harsh.”

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”

“Everyone will think I'm ugly."
Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

“So how come it looks so beautiful?
How come the moon falls from the sky?”

“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”

“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”

“Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden. She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is.”

“What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”

“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”

“I heard you went to Ireland… I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?

Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.”

“You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen”

“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”

“Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo’s David. Versailles. Magnus himself.”

“Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.”

“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”

“I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.”

“You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to scratch your eyes out. If that isn't the stuff of fairy tales, I don't know what is.”

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

“What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”

“I want to know if you can see beauty even when it’s not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.”

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”

“The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.”

“Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him.
"Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her.
"It takes a man with real heart"
—he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest—
"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

“You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.”

“She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.”

“Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.”

“It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.”

“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.”

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”

“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”

“We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”

“Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit… -Calvin Johnson”

“UncondiTional love is a beauTiful Thing. JusT be sure To
give iT after your conditions have been meT :P”

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”

“You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down”

“You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.”

“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”

“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.”

“… beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.”

“Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.”

“To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous… the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe… essence”

“The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T. B.
Once you were beautiful.”