“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.” BeautifulBeautySadnessPoetSweetLongingAwakeBeautiful ThingsWisestSweet Music Author:Richard Chenevix Trench
“A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.” FeelsMayWould BeLastsBeautifulTurnsNamesGoalSinSacrificeOvercomingLongingFeel GoodRadicalDevotedFinestMisguidedGood EducationRefiningEgalitarianismHigh GoalsMoralism Book:Love and Friendship Source: Love and Friendship
“What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.” BeautifulVirtueLongingInnocentMotiveSoleFinestCheerfulnessIndefinable Author:Leo Tolstoy
“I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.” YearsFirstsMadeBeautifulStreetsKissingFirst TimeLongingGirlfriendTapeElationMadly In Love Author:Daphne Gottlieb
“Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.” MenHeartBeautifulWorkGreaterLongingCommandEmploymentFancyPortionsEarnestInner Life Author:Friedrich Schleiermacher
“God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.” KnowsHumansDoeGodAbleBeautifulFoundCompanySunDivineTruth IsGoodnessMirrorsLongingLeapRejoiceInnateSpecksGoodness And Truth Author:Roberta Bondi