Quotes About Beauty

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

I've come to this conclusion, on the rustling of the dried leaf skirts. It's like a form of vagueness that lets you imagine things, only you hear it.

The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals. Every so often you get a glimpse of what you forget, or you wade in and something snags you, a broken shell or a sea urchin the fishermen missed...No waves speak with the same voice, though they share the same elements and motion, the regular beating of the surf, their rippling heaves.

There are now skin products supposedly created with 24-karat gold extract. I guess if financial times got really tough, you could always pawn your own head.

Some days after, the girl encountered her again, in a dream, as she was years ago: a very slender young woman in a long white skirt, her amber hair to her waist, her eyes coal black with ardor.

I imagined myself a bird, looking down on our city, the Grand Canal like a snake slithering through stone, the city on either side like two hands clasped in prayer

The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

God wants us to have fat on our hips, stomach, thighs, and breasts. It was His clear intention. Does

si te dijera a cuántas mujeres maravillosas, lindas, sanas, tengo yo que consolar porque sienten que ya perdieron todos los derechos tan sólo porque cumplieron cuarenta. Todo está en la cabeza. Son las ideas las que nos acaban mucho antes de que se acabe el cuerpo.

Llegó al río. Se detuvo a mirarlo. Imaginó un ojo gigantesco muy lejos de allí llorando el agua cristalina.

Tenendosi a braccetto, alcune ragazze formavano a volte delle catene tutte femminili di cinque o sei. Strane, mi dicevo, guardandole. Nell'attimo che le incrociavamo, scrutavano attraverso i cristalli coi loro occhi ridenti, nei quali la curiosità si mescolava a una specie di bizzarro orgoglio, di disprezzo appena simulato. Davvero strane. Belle e Libere.

Šopenhauer i Ni?e su prvi u?ili o dubokom zna?enju besmislenosti života, i pokazali kako ta besmislenost može da se pretvori u umetnost...Užasna praznina koju su otkrili jeste upravo bezdušna i nepomu?ena lepota materije.

Mientras se contempla la luna en el cielo se pierde la perla que tenemos en la mano», afirma el maestro Shoshan.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

He who needs something to rebel against is less of a social anarchist than he who seeks to create something against which there is no need to rebel. There may be no end to the ugly, sordid, and horrifying things against which an honest man cannot help but revolt, but there are also things that are beautiful, joyful, and pure. If it were wrong to attend to the latter while the former still thrive, then a hopeless perpetual struggle would become the only meaning of life.

There shall we heare the pretty birds sweetly singing, see the hilles and plaines verdantly flouring; the Corne waving in the field like the billowes of the Sea, infinite store of goodly trees

En una bandada de blancas palomas, un cuervo negro añade más belleza incluso que el candor de un cisne

Nature has frequently planted astonishing genius in men of monstrously ugly appearance.

quando passaron dentro col favore degli occhi di colei

El viajero que trepa penosamente hasta la cima de un escarpado monte, goza muchísimo más cuando al término de su viaje descubre ante su vista una vasta y deliciosa llanura.