Quotes About Beauty

You can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

You can't see why anyone wouldn't want to wallow in the sheer beauty of language .

She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There's a reason fuckcubbies don't come with fluorescent lights.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

He raised one eyebrow. "Now I have made you angry with me. I gave you credit for more sense. It is true that she is prettier than you, and nobody in his right mind would deny it. Mere prettiness, however, is not always sufficient to attract a man of sense and experience. What you have, and what Miss Yarcombe lacks and will probably always lack, is character. A doll may be pretty. A woman should be something more.

Oh blessèd be the day, the month, the year, the season and the time, the hour, the instant, the gracious countryside, the place where I was struck by those two lovely eyes that bound me.

Sofradaki münala?an?n çirkin bir çocu?u do?du: Sükut. Ruhlar ac?la?m??t? ve güzel bir mevzua girilemiyordu.

?air de?ilim ki... sana ne söyleyeyim? Bülbül, çiçek, deniz, ay... bunlar? da m? istemezsin? S. 238

A?açlar?n bile s?hhatine imrenerek yürürdüm.

Tuhaf" dedi, benim bu k?z? gözlerim ?s?r?yor. Ben dedim ki, e?er güzellerin vücutlar?nda göz ?s?r?klar? iz b?raksayd?, bütün yüzleri, boyunlar?, bacaklar?, ayaklar? çürük içinde kal?rd?.

In my opinion, walking over moss was as enjoyable as walking barefoot on the beach, if not more so.

It's just another day for you and me in paradise.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

and when our bodies rise again, they will be wildflowers, then rabbits, then wolves singing a perfect love to the beautiful, meaningless moon.

The combination of random branching and orderly underlying lattice creates the exquisite complexity of the snowflake, poised on the brink of chaos and minutely sensitive to tiny variations in the temperature and humidity of the air.

That's the kind of face you had - the kind that directed the world and made it beautiful.

She was emancipated, rebellious, extravagant, decadent, daring, and very much in love with beauty.

I love the hush of those deserted places, those old battlefields, always so breathtaking, as if we, as a species, have decided to fight only in beautiful places.

The point was that the world of music—its language, beauty, and mystery—was already urging itself on me. Some shift had already begun. Music was no longer a metaphor for the real world somewhere out there. It was becoming the opposite. The "out there" stuff was the metaphor and the real part was, and is to this day, the music.

When a mind is in love with Jesus, this is what it sees: a world full of the wonders he has made.

At its best, art is able to do what Fujimura's paintings do: satisfy our deep longing for beauty and communicate profound spiritual, intellectual, and emotional truth about the world that God has made for his glory. Is it any wonder that the best artists are celebrated?

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.