Beauty Quote by John Walford

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

— Annie Dillard

“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

“But desire must also be cultivated; the beautiful does not always immediately commend itself to every taste; Christ's beauty, like that of Isaiah's suffering…

— David Bentley Hart

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there…

— Dean Koontz

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.”

— Ron Brackin

“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue”

— Osamu Dazai

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

— Socrates

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying…

— Anonymous

“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.”

— Dean Koontz

“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards…

— Roger Scruton