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Quotes About Beauty

And yet the winds of time were blowing; heedless of mankind they blew to and fro in the world preying upon beauty; and no one could escape them, not even children so newly born as to be still unnamed.
~ Dino Buzzati
I muri nudi ed umidi, il silenzio, lo squallore delle luci: tutti là dentro parevano essersi dimenticati che in qualche parte del mondo esistevano fiori, donne ridenti, case allegre e ospitali. Tutto là dentro era una rinuncia, ma per chi, per quale misterioso bene?
~ Dino Buzzati
Entretanto o tempo voava; sem reparar nos homens, passava aqui e ali pelo mundo, mortificando as coisas bonitas; e ninguém conseguia escapar-lhe, nem mesmo as crianças recém-nascidas, ainda desprovidas de nome.
~ Dino Buzzati
For the first time in years he raised his eyes to the windows and saw, beyond the frozen roofs and under the crystal clear sky, the distant mountains gleaming, white with snow. They looked like silver clouds sailing gaily along, slow-moving, above the worries of the earth. He looked at them: for how long had he been oblivious to their existence? He thought, how different they are from us men, God, how pure and beautiful.
~ Dino Buzzati
Ho detto il Natale più bello che ricordo. Perché bello non significa soltanto bello ma può significare anche terribile e profondo. Anzi. Le più grandi bellezze, in questo mondo, forse stanno proprio qui. Nel dolore, nel rimpianto di ciò che è stato e non sarà più, nella nostra solitudine, della quale noi in genere non ci accorgiamo, o preferiamo non pensarci. Ma verrà il giorno.
~ Dino Buzzati
In un momento Sono sfiorite le rose I petali caduti Perché io non potevo dimenticare le rose Le cercavamo insieme Abbiamo trovato delle rose Erano le sue rose erano le mie rose Questo viaggio chiamavamo amore Col nostro sangue e colle nostre lagrime facevamo le rose Che brillavano un momento al sole del mattino Le abbiamo sfiorite sotto il sole tra i rovi Le rose che non erano le nostre rose Le mie rose le sue rose P. S. E così dimenticammo le rose.
~ Dino Campana
dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress
~ Dionne Brand
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
~ Dita Von Teese
I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.
~ Dita Von Teese
Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.
~ Dita Von Teese
I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.
~ Dita Von Teese
I advocate glamour. Everyday. Every minute" "Glamour above all things.
~ Dita Von Teese
Don't save your good lingerie for dates, wear it for you.
~ Dita Von Teese
The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness.
~ Dita Von Teese
I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that's when she became extraordinary. It's that idea of what you're not born with, you can create.
~ Dita Von Teese
I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.
~ Dita Von Teese
When someone calls another individual ugly, all I see is that the one doing the insulting becomes instantly less beautiful. Consider it a compliment to be mocked for being different.
~ Dita Von Teese
Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.
~ Dita Von Teese
I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.
~ Dita Von Teese
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust
~ Djuna Barnes
Das Leben ist ewig; darin liegt seine Schönheit.
~ Djuna Barnes
And me who seem curious because no one has seen me for a million years, and now I'm seen! Is there such extraordinary need of misery to make beauty? Let go Hell; and your fall will be broken by the roof of Heaven.
~ Djuna Barnes
She was broad and tall, and though her skin was the skin of a child, there could be seen coming, early in her life, the design that was to be the weather-beaten grain of her face, that wood in the work; the tree coming forward in her, an undocumented record of time.
~ Djuna Barnes