Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty. – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5. In the first encounter between Viola (Cesario) and Olivia, Viola launches into a grand speech full of poetic compliments about Olivia’s beauty.
In Beauty Beauty is the illumination of your soul. – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
To experience beauty is to have your life enlarged. – John O’Donohue Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).
In Alive The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. – Arundhati Roy The End of Imagination, essay from her collection of essays, The Algebra of Infinite Justice.
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we’re not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls. – Gloria Reuben
It’s how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that? – Hilary Swank
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men. – H. P. Lovecraft
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. – Hans Urs von Balthasar
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. – Gustav Mahler
I think, growing up in a small town – I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That’s the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living. – Halsey
I’m halfway through Patti Smith’s memoir ‘Just Kids,’ which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don’t want it to end. – Hattie Morahan
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. – Henry Drummond
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first. – Hans Urs von Balthasar
In Beauty Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. – William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3.
I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I’m really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. – Halle Berry
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it. – H. P. Lovecraft
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we’re all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it’s true. – Gwyneth Paltrow
You don’t know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don’t talk to you. There’s very little interaction. – Helmut Jahn
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it’s a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn’t change – it hasn’t suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It’s still a cowboy movie. And that’s what’s incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that’s new territory. – Harrison Ford
