Death Quote by Emma Bull

“It's like watching some rare exotic butterfly. Pleasant to watch, but you can't touch it, for as soon as you do, it dies, it's…

— Haruki Murakami

“She does not, beautiful as she is, seize the soul by surprise, but, with more dangerous fascination, she steals it almost imperceptibly.”

— Anonymous

“...what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...”

— László Krasznahorkai

“Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that inspire nothing,…

— Muriel Barbery

“It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.”

— Lew Wallace

“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path…

— David Ricardo

“...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...”

— John Geddes

“For me, beauty is always retreating from one’s grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.”

— Yukio Mishima

“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.”

— Fennel Hudson

“His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. “The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout