Quotes About Beauty

There is nothing more beautiful, I think, than the evanescent fleeting images and sentiments presented by a language one is just becoming familiar with—ideas that flit across the mental sky, shaped and tinted by capricious fancy.

The best & the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.

Die besten und schönsten Dinge auf dieser Welt kann man weder sehen noch berühren, sondern nur im Herzen spüren.

The best and most beautiful in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

The German puts strength before beauty, and truth before convention, both in life and in literature. There is a vehement, sledge-hammer vigour about everything that he does. When he speaks, it is not to impress others, but because his heart would burst if he did not find an outlet for the thoughts that burn in his soul. Then, too, there is in German literature a fine reserve which I like; but its chief glory is the recognition I find in it of the redeeming potency

I used to feel along the square stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense of smell, would find the first violets and lilies.

One brief spring, musical with the song of robin and mocking-bird, one summer rich in fruit and roses, one autumn of gold and crimson sped by and left their gifts at the feet of an eager, delighted child.

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.

Once, while we were out on the water, the sun went down over the rim of the earth, and threw a soft, rosy light over the White City.

The BEST and the MOST BEAUTIFUL things Must Be felt with the HEART.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.