B Quotes
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“Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Beauty is an illusion that eyes see and mind discerns—a
serpent that looks charming but stings hard— a witch
that tempts and damns.”
“Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person”
“Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.”
“Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.”
“Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.”
“Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.”
“Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.”
Source: The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
“Beauty is as close to terror
as we can well endure.
Angels would not condescend
to damn our meagre souls.
That is why they awe
and why they terrify us so.
Every angel is terrible!”
Source: The Duino elegies
“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.”
Source: Paul Klee
“Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)”
“Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.”
“Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.”
Source: Kushiel's Dart
“Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“Beauty is beauty.”
“Beauty is beauty
whether born in the sky,
brushed onto canvas,
or rendered in code.”
Source: The Poetry Contest: Human vs. Machine
“Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.”
“beauty is beyond comprehension, beyond nature, it lies within the mind of a soul so divine as if it was created to divide the line between night and day.”
“Beauty is beyond look.”
“Beauty is boring because it is predictable.”
“Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces.”
“Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes
“Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.”
“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.”
Source: Pierce Penniless his supplication to the Devil: Summer's last will and testament. The terrors of the night. The unfortunate traveller, and selected writings
“Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”
Source: The Wedding: A Novel
“Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.”
“Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.”
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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.”
“Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth. It embodies the hopes and dreams of those who have gone before, including the spirit world; it is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.”
Source: Reflections from the North Country
“Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.”
“Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.”
Source: Possessed
“Beauty is
dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps.
Beauty is
seeing a Persian woman dance.
Ugly is not the absence of beauty.
Ugly
is the inability to identify it.
The inability
to be surprised by it.
It is the persistent reluctance
to be made a child by it.
Beauty is
simply
the manifestation of
love.”
“Beauty is deeper than just what you look at in a picture. You could fancy what you like, but as a woman my mother always raised us to believe in ourselves. I'm very grateful for the fact that my mother brought me up that way.”
“Beauty is defined not by our physical appearance but who we choose to be.”
“Beauty is demonstrably a cheat code for a slightly easier life. People just a little more likely to do you a favor, love just a little easier to access, the world just a little more welcoming.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“Beauty is desire. That's all it's ever gotten me, never love.”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”
“Beauty is divinity.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Beauty is either incarnate, or it remains an intangible abstraction.”
Source: The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays
“Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in. Number two... People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly. Number three... Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line. It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. So that's just three of several reasons why I think beauty is embarrassing.”
“Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.”
Source: Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
“Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.”
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“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
Source: The Prophet
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“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.”
“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Beauty is everything and beauty is within, however, if you don't feel good on the outside, then you will not look good.”