Beauty Quote by Annie Dillard

“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”

— Richard O. Prum

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

— Socrates

“The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.”

— Ron Brackin

“Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in…

— Elaine Scarry

“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards…

— Roger Scruton

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of…

— Tom Stoppard

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

— Plato

“Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning…

— Alain de Botton

“Often what prevents us from seeing beauty in the outside world is the fact that we fail to see beauty in ourselves and other…

— Anthony J Ciorra

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

— Anonymous

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

— Stasi Eldredge