Beauty Quote by R. Scott Bakker

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

— John O'Donohue

“There was a leap of joy in him, like a flame lighting up in a dark lantern. At this moment he believed it was…

— Elizabeth Goudge

The most intense image in the poem 8s that of light, but it is a different sort of light than is normally associated with…

— Uma Kukathas

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

— Toni Morrison

“An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.”

— John piper

“He would not look away. Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast – absence…

— Eowyn Ivey

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different…

— Tracy Chevalier

To love beauty is to see light.

— Victor Hugo

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the…

— Umberto Eco

“This light is such as effectually influences the inclination, and changes the nature of the soul. It assimilates the nature to the divine nature,…

— Jonathan Edwards

Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness...

— Ross Turnbull

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity…

— Carson McCullers