BEAUTY QUOTES
quotations about beauty
Beauty always comes with dark thoughts.
NIGHTWISH
"Wish I Had An Angel"
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE
The Anagram
Beauty is a precarious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. Often it seems to me to be an evil flower of nothingness, or else the cry of the world as it dies, or a desperate, sumptuous prayer.
EUGENE IONESCO
Present Past / Past Present
The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit.
THOMAS HARDY
Desperate Remedies
Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
JOHN LENNON
The Beatles Anthology
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
JOHN KEATS
Endymion
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
MARGARET HUNGERFORD
Molly Bawn
Beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Fallen Angels
Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep. Nine if you're ugly.
BETTY WHITE
attributed, Pinterest
Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. Strangely enough, beauty has been regarded as the most dangerous enemy of the soul, and the powers of darkness that are supposed to lie in wait for that frail and fluttering psyche, so precious and apparently so perishable, are usually represented as taking shapes of beguiling loveliness--lamias, loreleis, wood nymphs, and witches with blue flowers for their eyes.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
"The Persecutions of Beauty", Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
A Shadow of the Night
There is this peculiarity about the pleasure derived from the beautiful, that when raised to the highest pitch it sharpens into pain, acute and exquisite--pain which is itself a delight, produced by the strain of the soul to grasp and assimilate the perfect.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
Beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.
ANNE RICE
The Vampire Lestat
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
CHARLES READE
White Lies
If you can see a thing whole ... it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need a distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
PAMELA ANDERSON
Esquire, Jan. 2005
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER
attributed, Women Know Everything!