Beauty Quotes
William Goldman
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
1329 Louisa May Alcott
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
4571 Dorothy Parker
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
4806 Simona Panova
And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?
4768 Sovik Mishra
Even if we fall apart, even if we don't stay together, even if we Die there is this beauty about Love that keeps us alive in each others' heart, acting as a catalyst for beating the heart.
4607 Donald Trump
I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.
2620 Donald Trump
My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.
3209 Pablo Neruda
As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
2224 Richelle Mead
Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.
2268 Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement
1687 Ruskin Bond
and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
2902 John Joseph Powell
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
2393 Amit Ray
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
1903 Suzanne Collins
Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.
1999 Roman Payne
It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!
3905 Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
2816 Abraham Lincoln
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
1193 Markus Zusak
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
3894 Deepak Chopra
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
1933 C. JoyBell C.
Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.
2207 Rainer Maria Rilke
She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
Of her life, and weaves them gratefully
Into a single cloth –
It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
And clears it for a different celebration.
2716 Ellen DeGeneres
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
4277 Kahlil Gibran
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
3439 Julie Garwood
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
2509 Lao Tzu
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
4987 Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
1768 Mark Helprin
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
2497 Jess C. Scott
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime - if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more - was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
1481 Aberjhani
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
3481 Brenda Ueland
...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?
3381 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.
4053 Nikki Rowe
Carrying confidence isn't being the person everyone likes, it's being yourself, regardless of who likes you.
4639 Michel De Montaigne
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
2282 Roman Payne
She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.
4240 Edgar Allan Poe
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
1788 Ann Patchett
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
1635 Virginia Woolf
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
2028 Cameron Conaway
Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.
4010 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song and you;
Still as of old his being give
In Beauty's name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long
As there are flowers and you and song.
3466 Anne Lamott
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
2002 Sonia Rumzi
If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.
3029 Jefferson Smith
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.
1394 Oksana Rus
Your whispers are gentle echoes that sway ardent winds of harmony and in the symphony of life each word is wrapped in rhapsody... Dance with me within the wind... Let me love You...
1748 Simona Panova
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
4529 Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
4865 Chuck Palahniuk
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.
1342 Elizabeth Kostova
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
3567 Henry David Thoreau
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
2003 Aberjhani
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
3857 Justina Chen
I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.
4540 Robert Sexton
In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.
2195 Toba Beta
When I feel the beauty in words,
I am sensing the logic of heart.
2796 Peter Viereck
What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return - every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.
4762 Roman Payne
She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of dream. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself an angel, and her god was Beauty.
2876 Tao Lin
sad things are beautiful only from a distance
therefore you just want to get away from them
from a distance of one hundred and thirty years
....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful
4042 Elaine Scarry
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
3623 Dean Koontz
Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...
3556 Marty Rubin
If I could find the right words, I'd say what the blue sky says.
3220 Kino No Tabi
The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.
2458 Kathryn Davis
Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.
2211 Angelica Hopes
Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life.
4154 Carew Papritz
I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .
1654 Gabriel Brunsdon
When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!
1981 Gopichand Lagadapati
I look like a stinking pond that you always run away from,but there are some beautiful lotuses inside that pond
2248 Michael Bassey Johnson
The impression in the colors of your profound words evokes an everlasting impression in the mind of whosoever hears it.
3806 Agnostic Zetetic
We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.
4389 Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing help us to express our thoughts, to share experiences, to think, to love, to inspire, to motivate, to challenge, to liberate, to learn, to hope, to smile and to wonder.
3511 Jebreel Nahaary
Then there are these heavy perennial moments that suddenly unearth me, when the world takes on this ravaging clarity and you feel marooned, cut off from normality.
4911 Agnostic Zetetic
One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.
4128 Bryant McGill
The beautiful world is just one thought away. It's already there just waiting for us to realize and to accept it.
4612 Bryant McGill
Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.
3474 Bryant McGill
Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life - and then share.
3978 Richelle E. Goodrich
Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design - individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.
3095 William Steig
Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.
1983 Ava Dellaira
If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?
2700 Shabnam Sinha
A beautiful mind and a beautiful heart beautifies the world around.
3360 Sara Sheridan
Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.
1535 Brandi L. Bates
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
4349 Daniel J. Rice
There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.
2491 Mary E. DeMuth
It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
2540 Michael Bassey Johnson
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
4903 Charlotte Eriksson
And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.
2054 Oliver Bowden
Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.
2063 Brandon Villasenor
She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.
3931 Mark Nepo
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
3963 Hermann Hesse
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
3146 J.A. Pak
Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:
2961 Christopher Hawke
The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times are full, beautiful and meaningful beyond words, even when wrapped in pain.
3206 Patricia MacLachlan
...there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
2658 Terry Tempest Williams
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
3923 Marilynne Robinson
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
2961 Marilynne Robinson
I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.
I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
4749 Marilynne Robinson
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.
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