Quotes About Beauty

We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

The black ice of that dark fortress received the sunlight like a mortal wound.

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy... In the eternal struggle between the world's beauty and its cruelty, cruelty was gaining ground by the day...[And yet] The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards the centre of the stage, life went on fighting for equal rights.

But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail.

I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born …. I am the meaning of your deeds. I am the meaning of your so-called love; your destructive, selfish, wanton love … your love looks just like hatred.

But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that Action could be as noble as Words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.

What is her name? I don't know. I know her eyebrows.

The art of the cinema,' Truffaut allegedly said, 'is to point the camera at a beautiful woman.

Neela had dressed for beauty, not for warmth, and the afternoon had lost its glow. Solanka took off his coat and put it over her trembling shoulders. All around them in the park the colours were fading. The world became a place of blacks and greys. Women's clothes – unusually for New York, it had been a season of bright colours – faded to monochrome. Under a gunmetal sky, the green leached out of the spreading trees.

I was always certain of your father's love, because when he fell for me I was looking less attractive than a water buffalo

The landscape of his poetry was still the desert...

People can delight in the saddest of sob-stuff, as long as they find it beautiful.

Y es que acababa de ver emerger del remolino de las nubes la figura de una seductora mujer de cierta edad, con sari de brocado verde y oro, brillante en la nariz y moño alto perfectamente defendido por la laca contra la presión del viento de las alturas, que viajaba cómodamente sentada en alfombra volante.

Güzellik de bir tür kaderdir, güzellik güzellikle konuÅŸur, fark?na var?r ve onaylar, her konuda mazur görülebileceÄŸine inan?r...

La belleza antigua no basta -dijo-. Antiguos lugares, comportamientos antiguos, dioses antiguos. Actualmente el mundo está lleno de preguntas, y hay formas nuevas de belleza.

the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that Action could be as noble as Words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light.

By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.

Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.