Quotes About Beauty

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. —Goethe

He says, for example, that "the snowy Alps were visible in the distance from the camp, but no one was able to muster it within himself to give any thought to how beautiful they really are; this can only be done by one who is able to look at the world with the eyes of a man, not a slave." Majdanski

A psychologist recently wrote that "aesthetics have replaced ethics, so that stealing is no longer immoral, but being ugly and fat is." I'm drawn to people still willing to work against this frightening irony.

Life often looks its best from a distance.

Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that.

N'est-ce pas ce qui est si beau dans la vie, le fait que nous ayons parfois l'occasion d'être stupéfaits ?

Gunnar Ekelöf's poem "Waterlilies

Era la padronanza di sé che pietrificava e allarmava Pablo più di tutto, perché veniva dalla giovinezza e dalla bellezza, come quella che un tempo aveva conosciuto anche lui, e proprio per questo sapeva che non avrebbe conosciuto mai più.

When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of the waterfall like a chuckle of water rushing over smooth rocks, and there is nothing alien in the universe…

Yes, I know this narrative is crowded with beautiful women - Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Maycott, Mrs. Lavien, Mrs. Bingham. We might form a cricket team of beautiful women. I cannot help it if they are the ones who excite my notice and so trouble myself to describe.

I did not tremble to lose what men called beauty, but I feared the loss of my spirit and humor and love of living, the things I believed made my soul human and vibrant.

Cold-blooded murders are frightfully common here. Some kill people in order to be allowed to wear the red tail feathers of a parrot in their hair, and yet they are not ugly like the West Coast Negroes, for many men have as finely formed heads as could be found in London. We English, if naked, would make but poor figures beside the strapping forms and finely shaped limbs of Manyuema men and women.

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Beauty is in the adaptations of the beholder. —DONALD SYMONS, "What Do Men Want?

Scarlet! It is the first colour I have seen in months. Or so it seems. Scarlet. A little wild poppy, of a red so sudden it made my blood stop. I kept saying the word over and over to myself, scarlet, as if the word, like the colour, had escaped me till now, and just saying it would keep the little windblown flower in sight.

The planet, saved for another day, stokes up its slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarlet gash that take our breath away; a world at its interminable show of holy dying. And we go with it, the old gatherer and hunter. To its gaudy-day, though the contribution is small, adding our handsel of warm clay.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.