Quotes About Beauty

Van Gogh is utterly dead; the world may be fixed, but it never was broken. And shadow itself may resolve into beauty.

I like the slants of light; I'm a collector.

Each thing in the world is translucent.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars themselves neither require nor demand it.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.

No one owns the sunset

La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella. Simplemente lo era.

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time.

Al hacerte perfecto, tu aspecto no es lo único que cambia —concluyó Tally. —No —convino David—. También lo hace tu pensamiento.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. —Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, "Of Beauty

Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.

Or maybe when they do the operation - when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else - maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngblood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

The world's beauty hurt like razors, and Tally knew she'd never have to cut herself again. She carried a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her.

The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Una franja en la que se mezclaban el naranja y el amarillo prendía fuego al cielo, espléndida e inesperada, tan espectacular como los fuegos artificiales, aunque cambiaba a un ritmo majestuoso y apenas perceptible. Tally estaba descubriendo que así era la naturaleza. Peligrosa o bella. O ambas cosas a la vez.

Life was going to be one big party from now on, full of beautiful people. Like Tally Youngblood

Not just your face was changed by the knife. Your personality— the real you inside— was the price of beauty.

Hi guys the book Im reading right this moment is called Uglies

Eating breakfast by the river, Tally took time to appreciate her SwedeBalls.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Beauty is that Medusa's head Which men go armed to seek and sever. It is most deadly when most dead. And dead will stare and sting forever. —Archibald MacLeish, "Beauty

She scanned the captives, looking for Shay and David. The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. It was the cold expressions of the Specials, beautiful though they were, that seemed horrific to her now. A