Beauty Quote by Anne Carson

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think…

— John O'Donohue

“Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no amount of…

— John O'Donohue

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

— Arthur Erickson

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes…

— Issey Miyake

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not…

— Andre Breton

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

— Herman Melville

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see…

— Muriel Barbery

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

— Kate Elliott

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and…

— A. C. Benson

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all…

— Plotinus