Beautiful Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat…

— Curt Siodmak

“There is really only one way to restore a world that is dying and in disrepair: to make beauty where ugliness has set in.…

— Toko-pa Turner

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you…

— Ovid

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

— Wallace Stevens

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite…

— Peggy Orenstein

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right

— Anonymous

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

— Ovid

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic…

— Marieta Maglas

…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

— Pliny the Elder

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

— Donald C. Peattie

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the…

— Stephan Hoeller

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful…

— M. F. K. Fisher