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Quotes About Beauty

Entropy was a troubling and beautiful concept that lay at the heart of much human toil and sorrow. Everything, especially life, fell apart. Order was a boulder to be rolled uphill. The kitchen would not tidy itself.
~ Ian Mcewan
Without faith, how open and beautiful and terrifying the world must have seemed
~ Ian Mcewan
the beauty of poetic apprehension, the infinite joy of reason.
~ Ian Mcewan
Her forehead, so high and oval, reminded him of how Shakespeare was supposed to look. He was not certain how to put this to her.
~ Ian Mcewan
Not blemishes. Adornments.
~ Ian Mcewan
God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.
~ Ian Mcewan
J'aurais dû traverser l'existence avec ce privilège que donne la beauté, de pouvoir prendre les hommes et les jeter. Au lieu de quoi c'étaient eux qui m'abandonnaient ou mouraient. Ou bien se mariaient.
~ Ian Mcewan
Loud people, especially loud women, always attract enemies. It may have helped her, not to have been so threateningly beautiful...She actually told us that the word we must use of her was willowy. And then she laughed.
~ Ian Mcewan
The world is also full of wonders, which is why I'm foolishly in love with it.
~ Ian Mcewan
can't quite dispel the worthless notion that the very beautiful should live by other codes. For such a face as I've imagined for her there should be special respect.
~ Ian Mcewan
Soon human meaning would be bleached from the rocks, the landscape would assume its beauty and draw him in; the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.
~ Ian Mcewan
beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the other hand, has infinite variation.
~ Ian Mcewan
Note care se straduiesc sa transmita o semnificatie umana limpede, dar nu semnifica nimic. Doar frumusete pura. Ori dragoste in forma ei cea mai vaga, cea mai larga, pentru toti oamenii, fara deosebire.
~ Ian Mcewan
Wasted time in beautiful places, lingering joyfully just inside the gates of paradise with the world's colours aflame, always regretting the setting sun and the call home, the Edenic expulsion into the next day and its usual concerns.
~ Ian Mcewan
Daylight delights you.
~ Ian Mcewan
Ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision.
~ Ian Mcewan
The landscape wouldn't have been complete without her.
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
The orange-red lipstick named "Hibiscus Frenzy" that was produced by a giant American corporation, which Glamora was paid to wear so that every factory and office girl in England and America and possibly Australia who aspired to look like her would buy it, glowed under the sun.
~ Ilil Arbel
Does Curran not involve you in his strategic sessions?" Ghastek asked. "Nope, I'm just here to look pretty.
~ Ilona Andrews
One of my cousins is named Lucifer. I once asked my aunt why and she said, Because I wanted him to be beautiful and to think for himself.
~ Ilona Andrews
He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women.
~ Ilona Andrews
Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.
~ Ilona Andrews
Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears. Saiman
~ Ilona Andrews
She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.
~ Ilona Andrews