Quotes About Temporary Beauty

#1. And here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad ... gilded with impermanence ...

John Geddes

#2. Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#3. Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.

M.F. Moonzajer

#4. Audrianna rolled her eyes at Kendis' advice.

Julie Kirton Chandler

#5. I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing things living, glowing, captivated by their own temporary beauty.

Jojo Moyes

#6. Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

Jean Genet

#8. Because beautiful things, even when they are temporary, still manage to leave a part of their beauty with you ... even after they're long gone.

Bella Forrest

#9. He succeeded in staying out of exactly and only those forms of postadolescent trouble that were not winked at, sating himself with those that were.

David Quammen

#10. Holes are good for making friends, and friends are the best fillers I've found yet. Maybe because other people are the closest we get to God on this side. So when we use them to find God in each other, we become holy.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#11. Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Alicia Machado

#12. The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way
which money could buy ... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

Theodore Zeldin

#13. After one kiss you're already looking to get rid of me?

Savannah Stuart

#14. No problem, I said with all the confidence of a lemming who thinks he's headed for a nice day at the seashore.

Neil Gaiman

#15. I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are? (p. 173)

Jack Kerouac

#16. Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

Gregory Maguire

#17. Sheer male interest filled his gaze which was entirely focused on her. She'd never before felt so female, so utterly desirable, so wanton.

Jo Grafford

#18. Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

John Updike

#20. Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Makeup. Fancy dresses is just temporary beauty. Confidence. Smile this stays longer.

Sarvesh Jain