Quotes on Beauty

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls