Beauty Quotes

William Goldman

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Louisa May Alcott

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.. Louisa
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Dorothy Parker

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Michael Cunningham

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Simona Panova

And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?. Simona Panova
And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.. Michael Bassey Johnson
POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

Victoria Alexander

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

Donald Trump

The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.

Donald Trump

I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.

Donald Trump

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.

Pablo Neruda

As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Richelle Mead

Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

Jess C. Scott

A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement. Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement

Ruskin Bond

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

John Joseph Powell

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive
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.

Amit Ray

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.. Amit Ray
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Suzanne Collins

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes
Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

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!

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.

Jess C. Scott

The human body is the best work of art.. Jess C. Scott
The human body is the best work of art.

Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

Deepak Chopra

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

C. JoyBell C.

Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the
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.

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

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.

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.

Lao Tzu

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.. Lao Tzu
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Albert Einstein

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty,
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

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.

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.

Aberjhani

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

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?

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

Nikki Rowe

Carrying confidence isn't being the person everyone likes, it's being yourself, regardless of who likes you.

Michel De Montaigne

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.. Edgar
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

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.

Virginia Woolf

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely
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.

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.

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.

Anne Lamott

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

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.

Jefferson Smith

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.

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...

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.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the
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.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful;
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.

Aberjhani

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Justina Chen

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

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.

Toba Beta

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

Louisa May Alcott

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Helena Rubinstein

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones

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.

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.

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

Elaine Scarry

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Dean Koontz

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the
Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

Marty Rubin

If I could find the right words, I'd say what the blue sky says.. Marty Rubin
If I could find the right words, I'd say what the blue sky says.

Kino No Tabi

The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

Kathryn Davis

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

Angelica Hopes

Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life.

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 . . .

Gabriel Brunsdon

When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!

Gopichand Lagadapati

I look like a stinking pond that you always run away from,but there are some beautiful
I look like a stinking pond that you always run away from,but there are some beautiful lotuses inside that pond

Michael Bassey Johnson

The impression in the colors of your profound words evokes an everlasting impression in the mind of whosoever hears it.

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.

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.

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.

Agnostic Zetetic

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

Bryant McGill

The beautiful world is just one thought away. It's already there just waiting for us to realize and to accept it.

Bryant McGill

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.

Bryant McGill

Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life - and then share.

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.

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.

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?

Shabnam Sinha

A beautiful mind and a beautiful heart beautifies the world around.

Jim Jarmusch

It's a sad and beautiful world.

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.

Brandi L. Bates

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Daniel J. Rice

There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

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.

Oliver Bowden

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

Brandon Villasenor

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.

Mark Nepo

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Hermann Hesse

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

J.A. Pak

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

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.

Patricia MacLachlan

...there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

Terry Tempest Williams

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

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.

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.

Marilynne Robinson

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Marilynne Robinson

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

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