Inspirational Quotes on Beauty

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [ ]”

“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”

“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”

“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.”

“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”

“The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.”

“Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”

“The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love. ”

“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.”

“Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!”

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”

“I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.”

“Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.”

“One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in themselves sinful is much increased by religion. God is the God of the Beautiful—Religion is the love of the Beautiful, and Heaven is the Home of the Beautiful—-Nature is tenfold brighter in the Sun of Righteousness, and my love of Nature is more intense since I became a Christian—-if indeed I am one. God has not given me such thoughts and forbidden me to enjoy them.”

“The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.”

“If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”