Beauty Quote by Norman Hampson

“...Time that is intolerant Of the brave and the innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone…

— W.H. Auden

“Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a man's tranquility,…

— Anita Amirrezvani

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“Like a tide-race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates…

— j.k. huysmans

“And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where, like a…

— Anonymous

“On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.”

— Joseph Conrad

So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part…

— John Masefield

“When on the eve of glory, whilst brooding over the prospects of a bright and happy future, whilst meditating upon the risky right of…

— Amanda McKittrick Ros

“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Bloodied, sickened, broken down, we tarry while we may. For though life has wearied us, from death there’s no escape. One prayer, one stand,…

— Tobias Wade

“The leaves did not stir on the trees, cicadas twanged, and the monotonous muffled sound of the sea that rose from below spoke of…

— Anton Chekhov