Quotes About Beauty

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Die Tatsache, dass wahre Schönheit mit Selbstvergessenheit zu tun hatte, passte zum seltsamen Humor des Schöpfers: Jene, die sie besaßen, wussten nichts damit anzufangen, während alle, die etwas davon verstanden, niemals in ihren Besitz gelangten.

Nach Elenas Meinung hatte eine Frau in der ersten Lebenshälfte das Schminken nicht nötig, während es in der zweiten nicht mehr half.

Jede Anekdote endete allerdings mit der Feststellung, warum es sich trotzdem lohnte, eine Rossfrau zu lieben: Ihr Hintern blieb bis ins hohe Alter straff, sie wollte keine Kinder und ging nicht fremd.

The sublime Academy Award winning actor, Halle Berry, told a group of reporters in London in 2004 when she was promoting Cat Woman, "Being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory".

As he once told her, "a long closely connected train of reasoning is like a beautiful strain of music.")

There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe. Is there anything more beautiful than living light?

In such a square context, we grow in bent shapes, our love made beautiful by our restraints.

Similarly, only once we let go of all we know, including all our self-centered concerns, and break free of the cocoons we spin around ourselves to shut out the world can we become the truly beautiful beings we are meant to be.

Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?

I cannot get that beautiful afternoon out of my head, above me where I lay the grass was silhouetted against the blue of the heavens, small clouds were rushing past as the wind drove them on an endless journey.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Es la distancia la que embellece las cosas y las despeja del horror del momento, de la miseria de la cotidianidad

Es una de las ciudades más bellas del mundo —le dijo Max refiriéndose a Cracovia. Ella le dio la razón en cuanto llegaron a la ciudad, pero le impresionó

distancia la que embellece las cosas y las despeja

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.

Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're going to grow into yourself, and you will be as beautiful as you already are smart.

There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.

She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

She was so beautiful it made her teeth ache. He made a mental note not to attempt poetry.

And when he kissed her . . . All she wanted was more. "You are so beautiful," he murmured, and for the first time in her life, Sarah truly believed that she was. She touched his cheek. "So are you." Hugh smiled down at her, a silly half grin that told her he did not believe her for one second.