Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Beauty

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek