Quotes About Beauty

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.

But when I heard his voice, I felt content. When I was with him, I felt beautiful and happy. And there was nothing I could do about it.

As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration. -Sookie

Angélique Sookie, toi qui es la beauté et la grâce incarnées, pardonne-moi. Je suis accablé à l'idée que cette ménade malfaisante et démoniaque ait pu oser violenter ce corps parfait et voluptueux qui est le tien, dans l'intention de faire parvenir un message à mon indigne et misérable personne.

I don't think any woman minds knowing she looks good, as long as the admiration isn't expressed in an offensive way and doesn't come from a disgusting source.

What pretty nail polish,' Eric said, smiling. [...] Trust Eric to pick out the one thing that was new and different about me.

You're like a rose blooming in an untended garden.

I put my little yellow ball earrings in and wore my hair pulled up and back with a yellow banana clip holding it loosely.

Honey, we have other things to think about," I said, forcing myself to smile, forcing myself to sound calm. One corner of my brain pictured a pink ambulance screeching to a halt outside to disgorge emergency beauticians with cases of scissors, combs, and hair spray. "Dealing with a little hair damage can wait until tomorrow. It's a lot more important to find out who did this and why.

she was ethereally lovely, with a kind of deadly edge. the deadly edge was what a person shouldn't forget.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.

The Beautiful is always strange.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.

La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. - A Carcass

Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage, Traversé çà et là par de brillants de soleils; Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage, Qu'il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Music fathoms the sky.

Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuve La pleine lune s'étalait, Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuve Sur Paris dormant ruisselait.

When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'

It's impossible to accept love from anyone else if you don't love yourself. It's a big issue, particularly for us plus-size ladies and for anyone dealing with weight, because we're not taught to love ourselves or be our own cheerleaders.