Quotes About Beauty

From five to six miles I walk every day In search of you, Cherry blossoms.

246. From the heart of the sweet peony,/A drunken bee. 251. Tomb. bend/to autumn wind-/ my sobbing.

Suvvia, andiamo a contemplare la neve fino a cadervi dentro.

I don't know which tree it comes from, that fragrance.

Summer moon - Clapping hands I herald dawn

I went to a snow-viewing party.

On a withered branch A crow has alighted: Nightfall in autumn.

Sparrows in eaves, mice in ceiling - celestial music.

One after another In silent succession fall The flowers of yellow rose - The roar of tumbling water.

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

The butterfly perfuming it's wings fans the orchid - Matsuo Basho

I come weary, In search of an inn— Ah! These wisteria flowers!

She has fame, beauty, wealth…and love. She's a woman who has everything. And now she wants a pet…with everything she had, she still feels incomplete…and she expects "Count D" to satisfy that.

True chaos comes from the garden of your soul; where the wild flowers grow

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.

Life, he realized, was a profoundly complicated thing. It was filled with awe and wonder and beauty, but it was also filled with heartbreak and loneliness. Maybe that was what made it so precious. You could never know what to expect next, or who might step into or out of your world. And the truth was that we were all navigating the mystery together.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.

A problem with living in the twenty-first century..... we are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have only been to ten other countries. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photo shopped and filtered.

Remember no one really cares what you look like. They care what they look like. You are the only person in the world to have worried about your face.

To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.