Quotes About Beauty

At five, I had the intuitive, instinctive faith that my cosmos, my family and the world were good and true and beautiful. That somehow I had always been and always would be. And I knew in a way of a five-year-old that I had worth and dignity and individuality. Later, when I read Nietzsche's statement that these are not given to us by nature but are tasks that we must somehow solve, I knew him to be wrong. We all had them once. We

We are awed by the ultimate simplicity and power of the creativity of physical nature- and by its beauty on all scales.

Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Life isn't about the breathes you take, it's the moments that take your breathe away.

Our world is full of amazing phenomena: a stunningly rapturous sunrise, a night sky spangled with stardust, the fiery beauty of a volcanic lava flow. They all merit a "Oh my!" Humankind's imagination and innovation is truly breathtaking.

Lo, sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow, White petals from the flowers that grow In the cold atmosphere.

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Is there anything more beautiful than gold?" - Freya's question. Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. "A farm at first light Is more beautiful than gold, or A ship's sails in the mist. Many ordinary things are far more beautiful.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

Shall I wasting in despairDie because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flow'ry meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

I have never heard a fisherman say that he loves the sea.

Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue in dream and which we all complete within ourselves!

Is that not what makes it great?' he retorted to his friend. 'Its beauty resides in its silence, and its glory in now only belonging to a few priests and poor people, that is to say to those who are purest because they have renounced the world. Its higher destiny is to be something which has outlived its time.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream.

I dream that I'm beautiful. Not exactly beautiful, but inconspicuous. That's what it means to be beautiful, to be like everyone else. My head feels light. My eyes are on the front of my face. I have a nose, rather than nostrils. I have human skin, thin human skin. I walk down the street and no one notices me. Now that's happiness—no one noticing me. It's a happy dream.

Outside Bulgaria's borders people age more beautifully and more slowly, old age is more merciful elsewhere.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.