Beauty Quotes

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

~ Craig Thompson

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

And that was the thing: you couldn't just stand there gawking at the world. A car slipped by. Then another. It was as if she'd stood frozen by the river of the world and gratefully stepped back into it, resuming her place... The world waited, cold, grim, alive, beautiful. There was no saying no to it.

~ Liz Rosenberg

There is something divine in mindless beauty.

~ Albert Camus

Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with thefloating hearts and severed heads of my medicine. I must now whisper my other friends back too. I’m sad they’re gone…sad and blue.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

~ Audre Lorde

The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Some one has defined a work of art as a “thing beautifully done.” I like it better if we cut away the adverb and preserve the word “done,” and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.

~ Robert Henri

It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idolatry! Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?

~ Donna Tartt

Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

He looked up and I realised how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly light-headed, but not like before when I'd passed out. Being so close to the smooth dark skin of his face, getting lost in the shifting shades of his green eyes, it felt like my insides were fluttering and melting.

~ Heather Anastasiu

I am not your lover, but a victim of your beauty.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.

~ Steven Magee

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.

~ David Levithan

If we always livein constant fearthen we might missthe beauty of the momentright now, right here.

~ S. Tarr

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

~ Grigoris Deoudis

Maybe the reason nothing seems to be fixing you is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose; live accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

~ Irene Hunt

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

~ Debasish Mridha

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

~ Jim Butcher

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

~ Don Delillo

In the garden of my heartFlowers of loves were bloomingNot just to express the beauty But to spread the fragrance Of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house. Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty. Men use to tell us that we love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us: what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed?

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

~ Isaac Asimov

Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and began to grow. And thus the generations past were joined to the unknowable future.

~ Mary Doria Russell

My child has to be an artist,because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

~ Nomthandazo Tsembeni

See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is ...acknowledging everyone's beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

~ Bertrand Russell

You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from the nearest sea, I am taken aback by the sight of a purple land crab, like a relict of the ancient days when the Indian subcontinent, adrift on the earth’s mantle, moved northward to collide with the Asian landmass, driving these marine rocks, inch by inch, five miles into the skies. The rise of the Himalaya, begun in the Eocene, some fifty million years ago, is still continuing: an earthquake in 1959 caused mountains to fall into the rivers and changed the course of the great Brahmaputra, which comes down out of Tibet through northeastern India to join the Ganges near its delta at the Bay of Bengal.

~ Peter Matthiessen

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

~ Evelyn Underhill

A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

~ George R.r. Martin

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

~ Andrew Lang

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

~ Eowyn Ivey

You could say that life just happens and it's the way it goes, you either accept it or you fight it... Or You can be one of the few that rises above this perception and fights in all their glory to create the life they want, regardless of the struggle. Who do you want to be? Someone to remember or someone easy to forget...

~ Nikki Rowe

The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she’s beautiful.

~ Victoria Scott

When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)

~ Zack Love