Bearing witness Quote by William Morris

“When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.”

— Lao Tzu

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much…

— Cassandra Clare

“There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.”

— Lisa Samson

“True beauty is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it.”

— Terri Cheney

“All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is;”

— Lao Tzu

“She taught me not to block out ugliness by giving imagined beauty false dominion: but that on the other hand, in the midst of…

— Kate McCafferty

“Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far…

— Anonymous

“Himself an ugly man, insignificant of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.”

— Somerset Maugham

“The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?”

— Mary Balogh

“What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.”

— Kristen Callihan

“Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.”

— Ray Bradbury

“There is no beauty without ugliness, just as there’s no happiness without sorrow. We live in a world of contrasts, not absolutes.”

— Anna Zaires