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 beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

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

Margaret Cho

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Teale, Edwin Way

10.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Prager, Emily

12.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

13.

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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

15.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

17.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

18.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

22.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

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

24.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

25.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Proverb, French

27.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

28.

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

29.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

31.

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

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

35.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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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

40.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

43.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

44.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

45.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

46.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

48.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.