BEAUTY QUOTES XII

quotations about beauty

The perfection of her face created a sense of emptiness--like a house with no curtains in the window.

JEFF ABBOTT

Black Jack Point


If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents.

ROBERT BROWNING

Fra Lippo Lippi


Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure and are awed
because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Each single angel is terrifying.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Duino Elegies


At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus


And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

PLATO

The Symposium


Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.

JAMES REDFIELD

Beliefnet interview, "The Evolution Revolution"


While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

OCTAVE MIRBEAU

The Diary of a Chambermaid


Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion;
But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The angel Beauty walks her radiant way:
O, follow her! She never leads astray.

ALBERT LAIGHTON

"Beauty"


The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede