What Is Beauty Quotes
Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.
I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.
When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.
For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.
I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.
