Quotes About Beauty

Good happens, every morning that the sun rises, every night that the moon shines, every moment that the earth turns. And if you're brave enough to look in the elephant's eye, you see, finally, that behind the sadness there is joy.

Clouds, snow, mist, the dragon's breath on water, smoke from fire—a metaphor's pure being. —(1939–2019)

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.

Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We're so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

Silver hair and wrinkles are earned.

But I am not a failure as a human being or as a woman. In some core place deep within, I know this. I fail, yes. But I am not a failure. I disappoint. But I am not a disappointment. Yet when I find myself again in this place—losing the battle for my beauty, my body, my heart—I can sure feel like a failure in every way.

Thank God there are places with sounds that make me cry from beauty, not from pain.

O amor, admito-o com um suspiro, é muito mais forte que a literatura, porém o amor na literatura é bem mais belo do que na própria vida. Ao menos de vez em quando permite iludirmo-nos.

Being beautiful in itself, youth needs no transfiguration: in its abundance of strong life it is drawn to the tragic, and is happy to let melancholy suck sweetly from its still inexperienced bloom, and the very same phenomenon accounts for the readiness of young people to face danger and reach out a fraternal hand to all spiritual suffering

Arzuland??? zaman güzeldi, zeki insanlar?n aras?nda nüktedand?, gururu okÅŸand???nda kibirliydi, sevildiÄŸi zaman a??kt?.

Alles nach dem ist Ernüchterung, Abschattung nach diesem Rausch von Farben und Formen, nach der göttlichen Vielfalt dieser Stadt.

Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden...'

La plus volontaire mort c'est la plus belle.

Tierna, esbelta. graciosa, encantadora, juguetona y coqueta. aquella muchacha de diecinueve años se convierte desde el primer momento en la diosa del rococó, el prototipo de la moda y del gusto dominantes

I could do nothing but marvel at this new girlish creature, who seemed more childish than ever in her joy, yet more womanly in her beauty. She noticed my faint astonishment and accepted it as a gift.

O da kad?nlar?n çoÄŸu gibi baÅŸkalar?n?n ruh halinden beslenirdi. Arzuland??? zaman güzeldi, zeki insanlar?n aras?nda nüktedand?, gururu okÅŸand???nda kibirliydi, sevildiÄŸi zaman a??kt?.

pero a quien ha conocido la embriaguez exquisita, dichosa y pura de la creación, le repugna el aguardiente como un matarratas.

Önümden birkaç güzel kad?n geçti, ince kuma??n alt?nda her ad?mda titreyen göÄŸüslerine cüretkârca, fakat içten bir hayranl?k duymadan bakarken kendilerini böyle küstahça ç?plaklaÅŸt?r?lm?? ve küçümsenmiÅŸ hissettiklerinde sergiledikleri s?k?nt? ve haz kar???m? utangaçl?k kar??s?nda içimden güldüm.

L'ammirare esteticamente il talento in ogni sua forma porta irresistibilmente ad analizzare se stessi, per vedere se nel proprio fisico ancora misterioso o nell'anima ancora semisvelata non vi sia traccia o possibilità di quella sublime essenza.

Mais ta beauté est si singulière, c'est une bonté ouverte où chacun peut se servir autant que ses mains le lui permettent, elle est si grande, infiniment grande ta bonté, mais pardonne-moi- elle est indolente.

Her eyes were like coffee beans, and, when she laughed, they really did seem to crackle like roasting beans.

Was bedeutet Kultur anderes, als der groben Materie des Lebens ihr Feinstes, ihr Zartestes, ihr Subtilstes durch Kunst und Liebe zu entschmeicheln?