- “What angels invented these splendid ornaments, these rich conveniences, this ocean of air above, this ocean of water beneath, this firmament of earth between? this zodiac of lights, this tent of dropping clouds, this striped coat of climates, this fourfold year? Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once his floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
- “Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.” ― Jean Anouilh
- “I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better.””I’m afraid there are moments in life when even Schubert has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst.” ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
- “Art is something beautiful, creative, and full of aestheticism. It can be an expression of reality and also non-reality.” ― Md. Ziaul Haque
- “It has been a thousand years since I started trekking the earthA huge travel in night’s darkness from the Ceylonese watersto the Malayan seaI have been there too: the fading world of Vimbisara and AsokaEven further—the forgotten city of Vidarva,Today I am a weary soul although the ocean of life around continues to foam,Except for a few soothing moments with Natore’s Banalata Sen.Her hair as if the dark night of long lost Vidisha,Her face reminiscent of the fine works of Sravasti,When I saw her in the shadow it seemedas if a ship-wrecked mariner in a far away seahas spotted a cinnamon island lined with greenish grass.“Where had you been lost all these days? ”yes, she demanded of me, Natore’s Banalata Senraising her eyes of profound refuge.At the day’s end evening crawls in like the sound of dews,The kite flaps off the smell of sun from its wings.When all colours take leave from the worldexcept for the flicker of the hovering firefliesThe manuscript is ready with tales to be toldAll birds come home, rivers too,All transactions of the day being overNothing remains but darknessto sit face to face with Banalata Sen.” ― Jibanananda Das, Banalta Sen
- “She was beautiful, with all her nerves and all her complicated, circuitous feelings and contradictions and fears.” ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- “I’d keep your beauty timeless. like a flower pressed in a book, yesI wouldn’t let it fade Folded in the chapters of my mind” ― Richard L. Ratliff
- “Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.” ― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
- “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.” ― George MacDonald
- “Every new day, we must refocus, to see the beauty of the moment” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “А когда он переправлялся на пароме через реку и потом, поднимаясь на гору, глядел на свою родную деревню и на запад, где узкою полосой светилась холодная багровая заря, то думал о том, что правда и красота, направлявшие человеческую жизнь там, в саду и во дворе первосвященника, продолжались непрерывно до сего дня и, по-видимому, всегда составляли главное в человеческой жизни и вообще на земле; и чувство молодости, здоровья, силы, — ему было только 22 года, — и невыразимо сладкое ожидание счастья, неведомого, таинственного счастья овладевали им мало-помалу, и жизнь казалась ему восхитительной, чудесной и полной высокого смысла.” ― Антон Чехов
- “Why would I spend my life chasing rainbows when I can be still and see them in their full beauty” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray” ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- “We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass.” ― Tom Althouse, The frowny face cow
- “Human beings seek beauty, truth, love, and a spiritual connection with nature.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.” ― Ian McDonald, The Dervish House
- “A mirror never lies, so believe it when it shows you.” ― A Queen of Beauty
- “Life becomes more beautiful when you choose to embrace its beauty.” ― Gift Gugu Mona
- “The Hartliebs had no time for the snow. Outside their window, San Giorgio Maggiore seemed to be floating on the lagoon as if it had just surfaced there. The view was so beautiful that Victor felt his heart ache. Esther and her husband, however, stood side by side with their backs to the window.” ― Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord
- “Have all beautiful things sad destinies?” ― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- “Women are beautiful because the world sees with the eyes of men and us men are still influencing the preferences of humanity.” ― Hockson Floin
- “You are the song I keep in starless light, a beauty known beyond uncommon sight, within your mantle of colours and riotous grace, I seek the fire-storm, our winters place.” ― Ian William L.
- “A charming girl gets more proposals than a beautiful girl.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “Life isn’t all grand, but it isn’t all miserable either. There’s both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what’s beautiful? Concentrate on the good.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
- “What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.” ― Solange nicole
- “Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I don’t know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in Corriere della Sera when it was published was “Sì, abbiamo un’anima. Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot – “Yes, we have a soul, but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.” And I thought, exactly. That’s the view. Yes, we have a soul, but in what sense? In the sense that our brains, unlike the brains even of dogs and cats and chimpanzees and dolphins, our brains have functional structures that give our brains powers that no other brains have – powers of look-ahead, primarily. We can understand our position in the world, we can see the future, we can understand where we came from. We know that we’re here. No buffalo knows it’s a buffalo, but we jolly well know that we’re members of Homo sapiens, and it’s the knowledge that we have and the can-do, our capacity to think ahead and to reflect and to evaluate and to evaluate our evaluations, and evaluate the grounds for our evaluations.It’s this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what’s it made of? It’s made of neurons. It’s made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.” ― Daniel C. Dennett
- “There is beautiful you are.””No,” said Marged, between a sigh and a sob.”Yes,” said Owen.”No,” said Marged, not so certain.”Behold,” Owen said, from Solomon. “thou art fair. Thou hast dove’s eyes.””Dove’s eyes are small.” Marged said.”Yours are so big they are my whole world,” said Owen.” ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
- “What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.” ― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
- “Take your million smiles through billion miles; life will never get boring for you even for a while.” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365