B Quotes
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“Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!”
Source: Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts
“Beauty demands love and love, in turn, creates beauty.”
“Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.”
Source: I, Michelangelo
“Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.”
“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.”
Source: Modern Painters (Complete)
“Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.”
Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.”
“Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.”
“Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.”
“Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.”
Source: Beauty and Other Dangerous Things
“Beauty doesn't fade, it remains forever”
“Beauty doesn’t make you, so it can’t break you, either.”
Source: More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament
“Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.”
“Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.”
“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.”
“Beauty drawes more then oxen.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Beauty draws more than oxen.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.”
“Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.”
“Beauty draws us with a single hair.”
“Beauty = elegance = economy = simplicity. This is not only the simplest possible world but also the most beautiful possible world. The only thing that makes our world ugly is human behavior! That’s because humans have failed to know themselves. They have over-complicated everything.”
Source: Base Reality: Ultimate Existence
“Beauty empowers uplifting emotions and overwhelms us with spiritual fulfillment and transcendence. If we lack beauty, we remain disconnected and alienated and experience emptiness, sadness, or despair. This void creates emotional turmoil and may plunge our lives into hell.
("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
“Beauty endlessly blossoms, it's a mesmerizing timeless gift.”
“Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.”
Source: Poems & Fragments
“Beauty enraptures the eyes, and insight enlightens the mind; it always stays, whereas beauty disappears with time.”
“Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.”
“Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Beauty exists everywhere in the world. Love resides in all of us. That' the point. I only... I only want to deepen that. Show that there can be-- that there should be-- substance in it all...
There is love in caring for the sick, the weak, the ugly. A wilting flower holds just as much splendor as one on the cusp of opening. People are so quick to idolize the fresh and the new. They fetishize it...Why should we celebrate one without the other?”
Source: House of Roots and Ruin
“Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.”
“Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.”
“Beauty exists when nature speaks and the heart listens.”
“Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.”
Source: The Samurai's Garden: A Novel
“Beauty expert is not just about make people beautiful even to make people more confident!”
“Beauty fades, hair turns gray. Some people are lost before their time. But in the end, we don't remember them for how they looked. We remember how they made us feel.”
Source: Audette of Brookraven
“Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.”
“Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Beauty fades, dumb is forever.”
Source: Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever: The Making of a Happy Woman
“Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.”
“Beauty falls prey to the needs of the beholder, as their eyes are forever tainted by them.”
Source: Dream Fisher: A Metaphysical Work of Contemporary Fiction
“Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.”
“Beauty felt a thrill at the lurid flicker, though it struck some deep chord of terror in her.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture.”
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
“Beauty for wisdom, lust for love, youth for happiness, anger for understanding and denial for acceptance are all things I gladly trade on my journey through life. Who say's getting old is a bad thing?”
“Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.”
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
“Beauty had a threshold, and beyond it, it became a captivating terror.”
Source: Their Monstrous Hearts
“Beauty had emerged from her mother’s fingertips, her nimble use of needle and bright-colored thread. Beauty had lain in what sort of stitch could marry two scraps on a quilt and what other stitch mirrored a rose or a thorn or the seeded center of a sunflower.”
Source: The Seamstress of New Orleans
“Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.”
Source: To the Lighthouse