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Quotes About Beauty

When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men?
~ August Strindberg
she seeks me like roses in my mouth.
~ August Strindberg
I got up at 5 o'clock and saw the sun rise in a marvelous sky. A bright heart of light with a green rim fell on my bed three times.
~ August Strindberg
I still write poetry and think it is the highest form of literature." —
~ August Wilson
handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I'm a sunflower with a cracked petal.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even if you weigh four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock-knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are. Just like when you look at them, your eyes will get all wet and girly. Because of their beauty. Even if by any ordinary, reasonable standard, they're short and old and have bad skin.
~ Augusten Burroughs
This is the truest thing I know. Scars are nothing to hate, they are nothing to deny. They serve as our proof of what we survived, and there is nothing more beautiful than to have survived something.
~ Augusten Burroughs
His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I mean, handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even though you weigh four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are.
~ Augusten Burroughs
All a rainbow is is light that walks behind a raindrop and its colors fall out.
~ Augusten Burroughs
You manufacture beauty with your mind
~ Augusten Burroughs
Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even if you weight four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are
~ Augusten Burroughs
Scars are nothing to hate, they are nothing to deny. They serve as our proof of what we've survived, and there is nothing more beautiful than to have survived something.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
~ Ayn Rand
Andrei, did you like the opera? Not particularly. Andrei, do you see what you're missing? I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless. Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful? No. But I enjoyed it. The music? No. The way you listened to it.
~ Ayn Rand
The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
~ Ayn Rand
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
~ Ayn Rand
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.
~ Ayn Rand
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
~ Ayn Rand
Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.
~ Ayn Rand
Be ugly, be God
~ Ayn Rand