Appetite Quote by Charles Baudelaire

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it…

— George Bancroft

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

— Lionel Shriver

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out…

— Albert Camus

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection…

— George Santayana

“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 one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

— Madame de Stael

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

— Toni Morrison

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

— Maurice Maeterlinck