Beauty Quotes

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

~ Alain De Botton

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

~ Lisa Kleypas

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

~ William Paul Young

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

~ Oscar Wilde

Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and beautiful will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you.

~ Kaiden Blake

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

~ Shelley Winters

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

~ Kate Moss

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

~ Pat Conroy

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu...

~ W. Somerset Maugham

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

~ Jason Letts

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

~ Oscar Wilde

And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer. Stare a little longer. Because there’s something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.

~ Shane L. Koyczan

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

~ Luke Davies

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

~ Alice Hoffman

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

~ Sherwood Smith

Friendship is constant in all other thingsSave in the office and affairs of love.Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.Let every eye negotiate for itself,And trust no agent; for beauty is a witchAgainst whose charms faith melteth into blood.

~ William Shakespeare

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

~ Deena Metzger

There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that.There's no effort which is not beautiful--lifting a heavy stone or loving you.Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

~ Jeanette Winterson

The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final answer their worth is misshapen and distorted. The world’s story may end with a couple living happily ever after but our life in Christ enables the intimacy of the human relationship to illuminate an eternal perfection. In a balanced perspective, neither denigrated nor exalted from their intended place, fairy tales are a lovely and exhilarating part of life.

~ Natalie Nyquist

You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky

~ Pablo Neruda

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

~ Toba Beta

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

~ Haruki Murakami

But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.

~ Gwyn Thomas

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

~ Janet Fitch

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a perfect face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

~ Pat Benatar

A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in thanksgiving as it sets. Community is only being created when they have recognized that the greatness of man is to accept his insignificance, his human condition and his earth, and to thank God for having put in a finite body the seeds of eternity which are visible in small and daily gestures of love and forgiveness. The beauty of man is in this fidelity to the wonder of each day.

~ Jean Vanier

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

~ Albert Camus

Looking for Your FaceFrom the beginning of my lifeI have been looking for your facebut today I have seen itToday I have seenthe charm, the beauty,the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking forToday I have found youand those who laughedand scorned me yesterdayare sorry that they were not lookingas I didI am bewildered by the magnificenceof your beautyand wish to see youwith a hundred eyesMy heart has burned with passionand has searched foreverfor this wondrous beautythat I now beholdI am ashamedto call this love humanand afraid of Godto call it divineYour fragrant breathlike the morning breezehas come to the stillness of the gardenYou have breathed new life into meI have become your sunshineand also your shadowMy soul is screaming in ecstasyEvery fiber of my beingis in love with youYour effulgencehas lit a fire in my heartand you have made radiantfor methe earth and skyMy arrow of lovehas arrived at the targetI am in the house of mercyand my heartis a place of prayer

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

~ Drew Barrymore

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I snorted oh, beauty. What's that good for?Mary stared, her eyes round.It won you the prince, did it not?I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality. I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

What a beautiful woman. She moved with grace, she was entirely feminine, and yet, she possessed incredible inner strength. She’s a survivor.

~ Jan Moran

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

~ Ann Brashares

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

~ Justina Chen

She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. “Do you mind if I objectify you?”“Please do,” he said over his shoulder. “Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected.”“Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn’t be.”“It hardly matters, sweet; once they’ve come off, the attention isn’t likely to center on my absurdly handsome knees.

~ Meljean Brook

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

~ Kristin Cashore

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

~ Edward Abbey