B Quotes
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“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.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.”
“Beauty is vain. It appears and like the wind, it's gone”
Source: The Raven
“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.”
Source: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
“Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.”
“Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder.”
“Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldnt because we should all just get along, really.”
“Beauty is what doesn’t completely fit in the eye.”
“Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.”
“Beauty is what lies beyond usefulness. Beauty inspires loyalty and gives meaning to mere usefulness. We need useful things, but we love beautiful things. A building which is merely functional will not last, for people will not love it. They will get bored with it. The average football stadium now costs a billion dollars to build and lasts just thirty years, after which it appears dated, silly, and unfashionable. The Chartres Cathedral, on the other hand, is more beautiful than any sports complex on earth and it has been functional for more than 800 years. Beautiful things last because when they begin to fall apart, we tend to them, revive and restore them; however, when purely functional things fall apart, we tire of them and replace them.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Beauty is what's worn on the inside.
Courage is showing up when the heart is not in the game.”
“Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.”
“Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful.”
“Beauty is what you make of it. It is undefined and limitless.”
“Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.”
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
“Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.”
“Beauty is where you find it.”
“Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains.”
“Beauty is within. Only certain beholders have the capacity to witness it.”
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
“Beauty is you kept persuading but never pushed me into anything. Maybe that is why we kept connecting back and kept coming back!”
Source: Outlet from Loneliness
“Beauty is your eyes in your downturned face,
your hair when the wind breaks,
softly waving to your tired shoulder,
it's beautiful when I see your face,
then my heart is like a deer of fear,
afraid my love will fall,
afraid to string dreams,
because the heart is so vulnerable,
from the wound,
from crispy,
beauty is when the full moon turns pomegranate,
The shade grows on your wet lips.
Lull the wind to melodiousing song”
Source: Saga Moon Poem
“beauty is your heart,
eyes and your mind,
your held to share this with others
don't miss that opportunity it's a gift”
“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.”
“Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.”
“Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.”
“Beauty isn't just something you have; it's something you do.”
Source: Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
“Beauty isn't skin-deep. It's bone-deep. Heart-deep. Soul-deep. Only put to sleep. When we prick our finger on fear. Beauty can't be bought or made. It can only be awoken through laughter, and living, and love. Through being you and being true.”
Source: The Moonlight Dreamers
“Beauty isn’t visible; I don’t know why people think it is. Perhaps because at times there are physical manifestations suggesting beauty exists in a person, but don’t be fooled. Beauty isn’t the packaging, it’s the treasure wrapped up inside.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.”
“Beauty isn't made of sugar.”
Source: The Game
“Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.”
“Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor”
“Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.”
“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.”
Source: Ulysses
“Beauty, it's an inner sense, and it makes us happy. It's not complicated, we need it.”
“Beauty, it seemed to Amineh, did not have to be extraordinary to be cherished. Maybe that was its secret, that it lived in the most common expressions of man and nature. The artisan had discovered it in a block of wood, which he had carved into a scene of a young woman sitting at a window. The locals had created it through the colorful geraniums they placed on small protrusions covering every square meter of their adobe walls. Even the animals were not immune. Who could doubt the starlings’ ecstatic flight around the minarets of the mosque was inspired by the symmetry of that aging structure.”
Source: Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.”
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without orator.”
Source: The Rape of Lucrece
“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
“Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.”
“Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.”
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
“Beauty lies in boldness.”
“Beauty lies in creativity. Villainy lies in reality.”
“Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.”
Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method
“Beauty lies in kinship of heart, not skinship of body.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.”