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Quotes About Beauty

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
~ Charles Frohman
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
~ Hermann Hesse
I want to be a pretty corpse.
~ Eva Braun
Everything ends with flowers.
~ Helene Cixous
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
~ H.L. Mencken
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
~ Rufus Wainwright
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
~ Walt Whitman
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
~ William C. Bryant
There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
~ Li-Young Lee
When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Death is the only real elegance.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.
~ Saib Tabrizi
Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?
~ Alice Cary
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
~ Ernest Dowson
Death lies on her like an untimely frost.
~ William Shakespeare
Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Death is a name for beauty not in use.
~ Irving Layton
Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.
~ Reginald Heber
Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.
~ William Shakespeare
From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.
~ Robert Breault
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
~ Ouida