“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.” Edgar Alan Poe” — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain. — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening… — J. Christopher Stevens Copy Share Image
Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his… — Henry James Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“THE EARL OF Hythe, who took a great deal of pride in the fact that he had never succumbed to the awkward… — Emma Jensen Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My Heart, Back where it belongs, Where it is adored, Respected, Appreciated. My Mind, Total Chaos, Perfect Clarity. I see the truth,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
![“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all?…” quote by Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/560/truman-capote-376_beautiful_did-you-ever-in-that-wonderland-wilderne_406275.jpg)
![“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess…” quote by E. M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/e-m-forster-1118_august_in-europe-life-retreats-out-of-the-cold_1674386.jpg)