Beauty Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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 awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is a curse put on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

— William Congreve

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and…

— Eugene Ionesco

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

— William Congreve

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Therefore beauty is the true monument and spoil of the victory of the soul, when she with heavenly influence beareth rule over material and…

— Thomas Hoby

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely…

— Rainer Maria Rilke