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Beauty Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
- Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
- As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque…
- We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
- Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty,…
- There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision…
- As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
- What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The…
- Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the…
- It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of…
- We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...
- The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do…
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
- The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and…
More Beauty Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine