Beauty Quote by Dodie Smith

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so…

— Dodie Smith

“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

“I did not tremble to lose what men called beauty, but I feared the loss of my spirit and humor and love of living,…

— David Liss

“Beauty becomes tinged with sadness when experienced alone.”

— Ava Zavora

“Is there a relative value of beauty? Is evanescence - fleetingness - a necessary element of the thing that most moves us? A shooting…

— Gregory Maguire

“Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.”

— Timothy Morton

“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not…

— Elizabeth Ross

“beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is…

— Donna Tartt

“You can’t eat beauty, it doesn't feed you...beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just…

— Lupita Nyong o

“We turned left, walked through a large wooden doorway, and then we were standing in one of the most beautiful rooms in the world.…

— Gabrielle Charbonnet