Beauty Quote by Julia Margaret Cameron

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

— Nancy Etcoff

“While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much…

— Alain de Botton

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

— Octavio Paz

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where…

— Anonymous

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

— Ayn Rand

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life.…

— Alain de Botton

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

— Anna Sui

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

— Arthur Golden

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out…

— Albert Camus

“Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that…

— Rebecca Solnit