Top 100 Beauty Is Quotes
#1. Healing your wounds will hurt, so cry.
Cry your pretty little heart out until you have nothing left to shed, that's how beauty is grown;
through the darkest of our days we become the light.
Nikki Rowe
#2. The problem with beauty is you will always be in trouble, when you don't know what beauty is.
M.F. Moonzajer
#3. What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H.P. Lovecraft
#4. For once I've met a girl whose beauty on the inside is so powerful and deep, the surface beauty is almost secondary
Julie Lessman
#5. Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh
#7. People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek
#8. I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind ...
John Geddes
#9. Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.
Chris Campanioni
#10. Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
Cindy Margolis
#11. Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
Delta Burke
#12. The one, true unique beauty is woman. The rest, all the rest, exists simply to adorn her.
Yasmina Khadra
#13. Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
James Joyce
#15. In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis Morissette
#16. Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
Gautama Buddha
#17. Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.
Charles Kingsley
#18. Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
Yasmin Mogahed
#19. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
Joan Chen
#20. Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites.
Ben Bernanke
#21. Beauty is so within. I don't care if you're the most attractive person on the planet ... if you're not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out.
Drew Barrymore
#22. In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Douglas Sirk
#23. But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.
Sydney J. Harris
#24. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.
Georges Bataille
#25. Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin
#26. Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.
Gregory Orr
#27. What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.
John Updike
#28. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
~Waddington
W. Somerset Maugham
#29. Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.
John Zimmerman
#30. A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#31. The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.
Judith Schaechter
#32. Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
Jacqueline Carey
#33. Surface beauty ... is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see.
Alex Flinn
#34. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R.D. Laing
#36. In all my paintings, the animal is at the centre. Surrounding it are the things that define the animal. This is how beauty is characterized. You need to characterize beauty by association.
I have learned to worship beauty. Not ordinary beauty but that in its stormiest nature.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#39. It's like your beauty is wasted on my eyeballs.
Alanea Alder
#41. Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco
#42. In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.
Louise Bourgeois
#43. Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
Ovid
#44. Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
Edmond De Goncourt
#47. The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
Thorstein Veblen
#49. Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.
Rolf Potts
#50. The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
Andrea Jung
#51. Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
David Levithan
#52. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue.
Osamu Dazai
#53. I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#54. Natural beauty is always tiresome. It lacks that careless touch of artifice that is the hallmark of true originality. There is nothing so overdone and vulgar as unspoilt simplicity.
Emily Croy Barker
#56. Beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time, ... beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time.
Milan Kundera
#57. You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
Robert Gottlieb
#58. I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.
Michael Light
#60. But beauty is not the only thing that makes a woman attractive; indeed, great beauty is often somewhat chilling: you admire, but are not moved.
W. Somerset Maugham
#61. Our human need for beauty is not simply a redundant addition to the list of human appetites. It is not something that we could lack and still be fulfilled as people. It is a need arising from our metaphysical condition as free individuals, seeking our place in an objective world.
Roger Scruton
#62. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?
Diane Keaton
#63. Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality.
John O'Donohue
#64. Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
Brassai
#66. Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
John Keats
#69. We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.
Ernesto Cardenal
#70. The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
Ambrose Bierce
#71. Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
Seneca The Younger
#72. Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
George Santayana
#73. I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."
Carson said, "Lucky for you, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I will acknowledge you really do an exhaustive job cleaning the bedroom.
Dean Koontz
#74. Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.
Audrey Hepburn
#75. Beauty is in the reflection of your love that is always present in your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#77. To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Ellen DeGeneres
#78. The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.
Robinson Jeffers
#79. However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.
Luis Marques
#80. Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
#81. We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
#82. Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.
Jean-Francois Millet
#83. Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.
Rudolf Steiner
#84. The beauty is that you are always free to choose a better future as well as a better past!
Anuranjita Kumar
#85. I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Conan O'Brien
#86. Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade
#87. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#88. What common people call beauty is essentially nature. The moment nature abandons you, your beauty is lost forever.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#89. Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.
Saint Augustine
#90. Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
#91. All beauty is but a shadow of the Beauty of the Most Beautiful. "Allah is Beautiful and loves beauty," said the Prophet.
Faraz Rabbani
#93. Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
John Ruskin
#94. Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.
John Lennox
#95. [Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
Paul Valery
#96. In understanding what beauty is, we shall know love, for the understanding of beauty is the peace of the heart.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#97. Sophia Loren said, Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sherry Argov
#98. Beauty is not always in the face, but it is always in confidence.
Debasish Mridha
#99. If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime
Bob Dylan
#100. I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
John Fowles
