Beautiful Writing Quotes

I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Becoming hurts.

~ Kat Howard

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

~ Penelope Douglas

But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.

~ Penelope Douglas

But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.

~ Penelope Douglas

Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she’s different, I told myself.

~ Penelope Douglas

In love madly,traveling though thelife-raft's unravelingin a beautiful tragedy,but gladly i'm stillpaddling throughthe oceanof youranatomy.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.

~ C.s. Harris

The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.

~ Piper Payne

All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born

~ John Burnside

From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him fro ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all my paintings, the animal is at the centre. Surrounding it are the things that define the animal. This is how beauty is characterized. You need to characterize beauty by association. I have learned to worship beauty. Not ordinary beauty but that in its stormiest nature.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Truth falls from the heavens like rain, gently carving many channels in the earth. Your truth may be different from my own, yet both are still true.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.

~ Leonardo Donofrio

she is born in the breath of a cloud

~ Patrick Ness

Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.

~ Nikki Rowe

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

~ Brian Morton

a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. this forest eats itself and lives forever.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the beauty of being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When people are cruel it's often said that they have no heart, only a cold space or lump of ice in their chest. This was never true of Avalon. She had no heart, everyone knew, but there was nothing cold about her. In her chest burned an enormous coal, white-hot, brighter than the North Star. North knew the truth about Avalon: she was made of fire, and she would burn them all.

~ Kirsty Logan

But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent? murmured Kohlrabi.Because I'd been hording words for years, buying them from peddlers and carving them secretly on bits of bark so I wouldn't forget them, and then he turned up using words like epiphany and amaranth. Because I heard him talking in the marketplace, laying out sentences like a merchant rolling out rich silks. Because he made words and ideas dance like flames and something that was damp and dying came alive in my mind, the way it hadn't since they burned my father's books. Because he walked into Chough with stories from exciting places tangled around him like maypole streamers...Mosca shrugged.He's got a way with words.

~ Frances Hardinge

The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun here was different than the sun in Nebraska. It seemed gentler, more golden, deeper. The shadows it cast seemed more profound. But September could not be sure. When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean that it is brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can only live life when we understand life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words ‘Papa’ and ‘Mama’.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The beauty of existence is my joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I see harmony in everything.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.

~ Alison Croggon

Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.

~ Pat Conroy

I am blessed.I am beautiful.I am great.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.

~ Wallace Stegner

Use your imagination to create your beautiful life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must experience Heaven on earth;May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all beautiful creation of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to explore the beautiful places of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.To hear the immense night, still more immense without her,And the verse falls to the snow like dew to the pasture.

~ Pablo Neruda