Beauty Quote by Murasaki Shikibu

“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink…

— Alice Hoffman

“And while we love the beauty of our world, we must remember that it is only a type, a shadow thing, very faintly resembling…

— Jennifer Freitag

“He'd closed the door to all of his emotions years ago, but now, the aroma that seeped from her flawless skin was an intoxicating…

— Beth Bares

“If he was the sweet, terrifying darkness, I was the glittering light that only his shadows could make clear.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“And at twilight, dreading to repass that ominous spot, I walked circuitously back to the town by the curving road on the south. I…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“We thought it was drops of dew and kissed cold tears from the crossgrass.”

— Jónas Hallgrímsson

“Wasn't loving him like loving the sun, so beautiful and warm, essential to light but deadly if you got too close?”

— Jennifer Armintrout

“There was the starlight set upon the brilliant darkness; and there were her pale cool cheeks, and he let himself be lost in love…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The thing was still loathsome--more loathsome, if possible, than before--and the scarlet dew that spotted the hand seemed brighter, and more like blood newly…

— Oscar Wilde

“He kisses her flaws of darkness like they are the softest of flowers on a bright spring day.”

— Nitya Prakash

“He’s shown me that there doesn’t have to be light for something to be beautiful. Love can grow in the darkness … I know…

— Aly Martinez

“... right glad is the grass that grows in the open, when the damp dewdrops are dripping from the leaves, to greet a gay…

— J.R.R. Tolkien