Beauty Quote by Estelle Jussim

“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that…

— Jean Lorrain

“In its dream of the triumph of reason and science, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century failed in its hope of sweeping away old…

— Jan Swafford

“There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant…

— Oscar Wilde

“Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!”

— John Irving

“The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that transfigured spark…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love.”

— Jay Woodman

“beauty remains, even in misfortune”

— Anne Frank

“Beauty is sometimes hidden under a veil of tragedy.”

— Karen Amanda Hooper

“Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities—something best described as a profound…

— E.M. Forester

“For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts,…

— Alain de Botton

“[B]etter the beauty of struggle and futility than the illusion of accomplishment; for as we struggle, he would seem to say, so are we…

— Evan Dara