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.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

1910s, My November Guest (1915)

Love, Autumn, Thinking, Tree

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

Vicki Pettersson (1972) American author

Source: City of Souls

Soul

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

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Variant: All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Source: Anna Karenina

Life, Light

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Variant: The Beautiful is always strange.

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

Aron Ralston Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Source: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Life, Parting

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

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

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

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Soul, Time

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

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Angels

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

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Love, Religion, Understanding

“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.”

Katrina Kenison American writer

Source: The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

Thinking, Light

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

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

Life

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

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“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.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Life, Forgetting

“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.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Beauty, Nature

“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…”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

Intelligence, Thinking, Passion

“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.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

Change

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

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

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

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

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

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano

Hope, Drink, Understanding

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

Alan Hollinghurst book The Line of Beauty

Source: The Line of Beauty

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

Anne Ursu (1900) American writer

Source: Breadcrumbs

Lie

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

Diana Palmer (1946) American romance novelist

Life

“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?”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Girl, Kiss, Perfection

“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…”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Source: Lyrical Ballads

Love, Time

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

Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.

Source: Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer

Truth, Animals

“Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful”

Gregory Hill (1941–2000) American writer and founder of Discordianism

Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

Flowers

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

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Variant: 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.
Source: Factotum

Way, Imagination, Time

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

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

People, Sex

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

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Imagination, Sleep

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

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Beauty, love, Cute, Romantic

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

For Wife, love, Missing You, Good Night

“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.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Nature, Despair

“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.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Part 2, Apert; Orolo to Raz
Source: Anathem (2008)

Love, Way

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

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

People, Lie

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

Jean Genet (1910–1986) French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist

Source: Miracle of the Rose

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

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

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

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Loss

“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.”

Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer

Source: Broken Verses

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

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Black as night and as beautiful as forever.”

Stephen King book Everything's Eventual

Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Night

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

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

Life

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

Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

“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.”

Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss

Source: The Inheritance of Loss

Life, Animals

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

Miriam Toews book A Complicated Kindness

Source: A Complicated Kindness

Life, Lie, Help

“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.”

Melissa de la Cruz book Misguided Angel

Source: Misguided Angel

Feeling, Light

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

John Keats Endymion

Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)
Context: A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Beauty, Joy

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

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Funny, Good Morning

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

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

“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”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Fate, Secret, World, Fear

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Success
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

“Beauty is harsh.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Pain, Birth, Heart

“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.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

World, Smile, Thinking

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

Source: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems

Truth

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

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

Source: The Eraser

“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.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Beauty, Peace, Flowers

“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.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

History

“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.”

Rabih Alameddine book An Unnecessary Woman

Source: An Unnecessary Woman

Life, Age

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

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

Sleep

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

Sebastian Barry book The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

World, Happiness

“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.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

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

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Love, Girl

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Asfixia

Imagination

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

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Born to Endless Night

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

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

People

“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.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"My Credo", a speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932), as published in Einstein: A Life in Science (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin, p. 262.
1930s

Life, Truth, Justice, Feeling

“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.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Personality, Sincerity

“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.”

Zoey Dean (1950) American writer

Source: How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls

Women, Men

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

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed (2013)

“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.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

Faith, Sense

“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.”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

Life

“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.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Though attributed to Emerson in Edwards' A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 37, this quote originates in Politics for the People (1848) by Charles Kingsley.
Misattributed

God, Flowers

“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.”

James Allen book As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

Men, World

“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.”

Clive Barker Days of Magic, Nights of War

Source: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Sadness, Fools, Singing, Heart

“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.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

Source: Waiting for God

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

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Faith

“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.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

People, Girl, Help, Personality

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

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

World

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

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“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.”

Primo Levi (1918–1987) Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, essayist

Housing

“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.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Letter to H.G. Wells (10 July 1915).

Life, Art

“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Source: The Art of Literature

Truth

“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.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Feeling

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

Richard Rodgers

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Love

“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.”

Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace

Source: A Fatal Grace

Life, Wisdom, Pain, Age

“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.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Variant: We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) 
Context: From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. 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.”

George Meredith book Diana of the Crossways

Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pDlxjZ-z-woC&q=%22A+witty+woman+is+a+treasure+a+witty+beauty+is+a+power%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage. <br class="br">Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885)

Motivational, Beauty, For women, Success