Beauty Quotes · Page 220

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?”

— Crystal Woods

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

— Roger Ballen

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

— Laurence J. Peter

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

— William Shakespeare

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

— Christa Wolf

The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.

— Witold Rybczynski

My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for…

— Mike Ruiz

You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a…

— Amy Sillman

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

— Franz Kafka

Friends are miracles, sent by God so that we can glimpse the beauty of heaven and feel the warmth of His divine…

— Anonymous

Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.

— Pope John Paul II

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Only through pain will you have beauty. Only through suffering will you find peace. I wrap, I bind, but you will have…

— Lisa See

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at…

— Margot Livesey

“Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“…[L]ike a redbud’s crumpled branch you lie beside me so beautiful, so broken, so like Istanbul as the curtains lift on the…

— Gokçenur C

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are…

— Peter Matthiessen

I fancy all the Disney princes, obviously. I also fancy some objects and animals that are in Disney films, like the French…

— Emily Atack

“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of…

— Hermann Hesse

Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my…

— Dree Hemingway

A pretty face attracts the eye. But a good character catches the heart. Don't be busy fixing your face, be busy fixing…

— Anonymous

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

— Shirley MacLaine

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

— Thorstein Veblen

“In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.”

— Sara Baume

“All the beauty in the world was made within the oppressive limitations of time and death and impermanence.”

— Joseph Fink

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

— Pam Grier

Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high meed.

— John Keats

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

— Christophe Lemaire

“Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.

— Chelsea Leyland

“Looks aren't everything. Looks fade, but character remains.”

— Kim Vogel Sawyer

I embrace the messiness of life, I find it so beautiful actually.

— Brad Pitt

“By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!”

— Steve Maraboli

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

— Natsuo Kirino

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

— Walt Disney

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

— Rei Kawakubo