Beauty Quotes

The moments of perfect pleasure in Johnson's songs, and the beauty of those songs, remind one that it is not the simple presence of evil that is unbearable; what is unbearable is the impossibility of reconciling the facts of evil with the beauty of the world.

Greil Marcus

A thousand graces diffusing He passed through the groves in haste, And merely regarding them As He passed Clothed them with His beauty. ~ 5

John of the Cross

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All beauty is sad. For it fades.

David Gemmell

There is beauty in all we know and beauty in all we don't know. Our journey is to love it all.

Thomas Warfield

Oh, beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love?

Sara Teasdale

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Nick Bantock

Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.

Kristen Reed

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Naomi Wolf

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Wilfred Owen

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.

Mandy Slade

J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée,Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer,Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.

Jean Racine

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.

Traci LaRussa

Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.

Mabel Iam

Roses just now predominate. There is a satisfying solidity about the bunches, a glorious abundance which, in a commodity so easily enjoyed without ownership, is scarcely credible. I feel no desire to own these huge aggregations of odorous beauty. It would be like owning a harem, one imagines.

William Mcfee

Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul.

John Lancaster Spalding

Beauty sat bathing by a spring

Anthony Munday

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty

Andrei Tarkovsky