Quotes About Beauty

The first issue of Essence featured a cover showing a beautiful, sensually full-featured black woman crowned by a glistening Afro emerging from shadow into the light of a new day. The cover date was May 1970, the newsstand price was 60 cents, the subscription rate was $5.00 for a year, $9.00 for two years, and the magazine had 82 pages, 13 of them advertising.

These are graven images – idolatry. A sin." He knew it was true. This was a love of worldly beauty utterly at odds with all he knew to be Puritan and holy.

El resultado es una forma parecida al tronco de un árbol envuelta en una capa, de la que surge una gran cabeza con un cuello recio como el de un toro.

a face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon

promising, like a silver flute lying on a page of music.

Have you ever thought about Jesus' physical appearance? If you think about the paintings, he was a relatively handsome Dutchman. But if you think about a prophetic description, "he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). To put it diplomatically, he didn't look like much, and sleepless nights filled with prayer vigils probably didn't help.

The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.

If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.

She made sadness beautiful

Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Un soir qu'ils étaient couchés l'un près de l'autre, comme elle lui demandait d'inventer un poème qui commencerait par je connais un beau pays, il s'exécuta sur-le-champ. Je connais un beau pays Il est de l'or et d'églantine Tout le monde s'y sourit Ah quelle aventure fine Les tigres y sont poltrons Les agneaux ont fière mine À tous les vieux vagabonds Ariane donne des tartines. Alors, elle lui baisa le la main, et il eut honte de cette admiration.

Mais c'est faire un pacte avec le diable, car il perd son âme, celui qui veut être religieusement aimé. Elles m'ont obligé à feindre la méchanceté, je ne leur pardonnerai jamais ! Mais que faire ? J'avais besoin d'elles, si belles quand elles dorment, besoin de leurs adorables gestes de pédéraste, besoin de leurs pudeurs, si vite suivies d'étonnantes docilités dans la pénombre des nuits, car rien ne les surprend ni ne les effraie qui soit service d'amour.

Aujourd'hui, je suis fou de mort, partout la mort, et ces roses sur ma table qui me parfument tandis que j'écris, affreusement vivant, ces roses sont des bouts de cadavres qu'on force à faire semblant de vivre trois jours de plus dans de l'eau et les gens achètent ces cadavres de fleurs et les jeunes filles s'en repaissent.

Femelle, je te traiterai en femelle, et c'est bassement que je te séduirai, comme tu le mérites et comme tu le veux. A notre prochaine rencontre, et ce sera bientôt, en deux heures je te séduirai par les moyens qui leur plaisent à toutes, les sales, sales moyens, et tu tomberas en grand imbécile amour, et ainsi vengerai-je les vieux et les laids, et tous les naïfs qui ne savent pas vous séduire, et tu partiras avec moi, extasiée et les yeux frits !

Agenouillés, ils étaient ridicules, ils étaient fiers et beaux, et vivre était sublime.

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong in the ranks of devoutly religious men.