Action Quote by Lawrence Durrell

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

— W. Somerset Maugham

There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them

— George Eliot

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat…

— Simone Weil

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

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there…

— Frederick Lenz

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

— Edmund Spenser

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume…

— W. Somerset Maugham

MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with…

— Shane Claiborne

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

— Robin McKinley

“We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us our own…

— Simone Weil

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of…

— C. S. Lewis