Beauty Quotes

A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

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

It was truer to my father to let the songs he'd sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I'd heard one?

~ Dimitri Verhulst

All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to create; nay, it is not really created: it is a secretion of the mind, it is a pearl that gathers round some irritant and slowly expresses the very essence of beauty and of desire that has lain long, potential and unexpressed, in the mind of the man who secretes it. God knows that this Unknown Country has been hit off in verse a hundred times...Milton does it so well in the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost that I defy any man of a sane understanding to read the whole of that book before going to bed and not to wake up next morning as though he had been on a journey.

~ Hilaire Belloc

Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

~ Mark Helprin

What is worse losing love or never finding it at all?

~ Vanshika Dhyani

Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance.

~ A.d. Posey

There is strength in kindness.

~ #Name?

A few days earlier, in front of his guests at his own birthday celebration, this man had started smashing his own crockery and tearing his and his wife's clothes, because he was not offered enough vodka; then he went on to break every stick of furniture in his house and smash all the windows, and he did it all for the beauty of the gesture, as Mr. Karamazov had just now.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.

~ Théophile Gautier

The spiritual process does not look outward to find beauty, but it is a process of looking inwards to see the inner beauty.

~ Debasish Mridha

You can't see beauty with miserable eyes.

~ H.g. Wells

Beauty doesn't make happiness, it only comes to the happy.

~ H.g. Wells

When we see and appreciate the beauty in others, we tend to absorb it and make it ours.

~ Debasish Mridha

For a short time, your beauty is an important matter. It the long run, what is important is what you are.

~ Debasish Mridha

When we emerge into the beauty of a dancing peacock, our spirit dances with joy.

~ Debasish Mridha

Enjoy the beauty of a peacock to reveal your own beauty on the canvas of your mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

~ Jean Nathan

Pitfalls he must find on that journey, blind paths perhaps, but through it all the philosophy of belief in the essential goodness, the actual significance of things created, the state of being, 'in love with life.

~ Frances Chesterton

Believe me, men never stare at women, its they who steal our attention - Ramana Pemmaraju

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

~ Munia Khan

What is beautiful?Everything that has been loved by someone,That is beautiful.

~ Newpostcard

It's good to feel attractive on the outside, but being smart and confident on the inside is what counts.

~ Olivia Culpo

I will never forget the asymmetry of your eyes. it is transformative symmetry. it is the best symmetry. It is the symmetry that is beauty.

~ Lydia Netzer

Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.

~ Jay Kristoff

Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.

~ Criss Jami

We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.

~ Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.

~ Eva Brann

Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.

~ Sudha Murty

In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of someone investigating a crime scene; though the women in American writing keep producing world-class beauty in droves, and there are many breathtaking writers among them.

~ Pat Conroy

You could not see and know her, and remain unmoved by those sensations of affection which belong to so near and tender a relationship.

~ Fanny Burney

Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything.

~ Kamand Kojouri

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.

~ G.e. Moore

Beauty always represents an inward and inexhaustible equilibrium of forces; and this overwhelms our soul, since it can neither be calculated nor mechanically produced. A sense of beauty can therefore permit us the direct experience of relationships before we can perceive them, in a differentiated manner, with our discursive reason; in this, incidentally, there is a defence for our own physical and psychic well-being, something that we cannot neglect with impunity.

~ Titus Burckhardt

Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.

~ Kelly Corbet

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

~ Ann Brashares

The soul is everlasting. It does not change. Live from your soul essence. Dare to embrace your true, full beauty. Live in GRACE!

~ Angie Karan

When the inner beauty exceeds the outward beauty--it creates a magical dance in the heart.

~ Angie Karan