Disillusion Quote by Toni Morrison

“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated in envy,…

— Toni Morrison

“There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was…

— Toni Morrison

Beauty was made for attraction not for affection

— Lara Flores

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the…

— George Eliot

I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of…

— Kristen Stewart

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was…

— Sigmund Freud

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

— Jack Vance

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

— Charles Dickens

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

— Anonymous

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

— David Foster Wallace

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of…

— Thomas Hardy

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

— Walter Hagen