Beauty Is An Illusion Quotes

#1. The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there's a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.

Margaret Atwood

#2. I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

Rachel Stevens

#3. The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.

Lesley Pearse

#4. You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?

John Steinbeck

#5. The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. For if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#8. I didn't think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.

Otto Penzler

#9. Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.

Theodore Dreiser

#10. Emerged from the tentative ways, the obscurities and dazzle of youth, we
look straight in front of us, ready for what may come (the door opens,
the door keeps on opening). All is real; all is firm without shadow or
illusion. Beauty rides our brows.

Virginia Woolf

#11. Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

Elaine Dundon

#12. It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.

Hermann Hesse

#13. I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Dave Sim

#15. With true beauty, there is no illusion.

James Philip Head

#16. At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty.

Rex Stout

#17. Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

Henry Van De Velde

#18. Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Joyce Carol Oates

#19. [B]etter the beauty of struggle and futility than the illusion of accomplishment; for as we struggle, he would seem to say, so are we beautiful.

Evan Dara

#20. It is not what we say to each other every day that establishes all the meaning and beauty and truth, it is everything we think before we speak

Tor Norretranders

#21. Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Karen Traviss

#22. No is a false perception.
Yes is a positive conception.
Go with reality and reason.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Stick to your charms, they give the illusion that some beauty resides in you somewhere. Insecurity shows the real serpent you are and you are in this moment a venomous snake.

Faye Sonja

#24. There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

Cassandra Clare

#25. An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny.

Steven Pinker

#26. Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

Harmony Korine

#27. The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

Jennifer Aniston

#29. The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Mary Baker Eddy

#30. Beauty is sweet to us, because she dances to the same fleeting tune with our lives. Knowledge is precious to us, because we shall never have time to complete it. All is done and finished in the eternal Heaven. But earth's flowers of illusion are kept eternally fresh by death.

Rabindranath Tagore

#31. Asking a question simply implies that you already know the answer. However, the question that you are asking may simply be an illusion. The beauty of the answer truly blooms, when you ask the right question.

Lionel Suggs

#32. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

#33. Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.

Richelle E. Goodrich