Beautiful Things Quotes

485 Beautiful Things quotes by 402 unique authors

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love. — Andrew Sean Greer
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed… — Markus Zusak
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."… — Oscar Wilde
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to… — Patrick Rothfuss
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful… — George Bernard Shaw
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with… — Louis de Bernieres
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate… — Oscar Wilde
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which… — Umberto Eco
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… — Alain de Botton
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. — Bob Dylan
Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes… — Melissa Marr
You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in… — Cassandra Clare
Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful… — Cassandra Clare
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and… — Jonathan Lethem
You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always. — Julia Child
He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but… — Michael Ende
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a… — Desmond Tutu
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers,… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the… — Sophie Kinsella
To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took… — Dante Alighieri
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde
Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those… — Catherine Marshall
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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