“Beauty is terror.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.comTagged: Fear, beauty, Philosophy, Life, one perfect sentence
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.comTagged: Beginnings, Nature, Magic, Youth
“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Love, beauty, selflessness, Relationships
“Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.”— Elena Ferrante, amazon.comTagged: strength, fragility, Limitations, Womanhood
“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”— John Irving, amazon.comTagged: Womanhood, beauty, Power, Weakness
“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Quote, Thomas Edison, Beautiful, travel, Explore
“the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Perspective, Lust, Adoration
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence.”— David Nicholls, amazon.comTagged: Confidence, beauty, Love
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”— Scott Westerfeld, amazon.comTagged: beauty, ugly, Self-Love, Confidence, Love
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: beauty, appearances, desires
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely’”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: ugly, beauty, Positivity
“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Attraction
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: tragic, beauty, Life
“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.”— Victoria Moran, amazon.comTagged: Self-Love, imperfect, beauty, Confidence
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Superficial, Love, Self-Love, Dating
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Confidence, beauty, Love, Relationships, Dating
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Confidence, Self-Love, Love
“It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.”— Russell Brand, amazon.comTagged: Confidence, inspiration, beauty
“Beauty remains, even in misfortune.”— Ann Frank, amazon.comTagged: beauty, The Obstacle Is The Way, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.comTagged: Fashion, Photography, Misogyny, feminism, beauty
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Nature, beauty
“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens.”— Jenny Han, amazon.comTagged: Perspective, Society, beauty, Relationships, Trust Issues
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”— Albert Camus, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Colours, Overwhelming Beauty
“She was dazzling — alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Beautiful People, beauty, Elegant, Great Looking, Agony of Beauty
“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”— Homer, amazon.comTagged: Love, Wonder, beauty, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“It is not that a poem or a painting or a palm tree or a person is ‘true,’ but rather that it ignites the desire for truth in us. It gives us an electric brightness, which leaves us prepared to undergo a giant labor.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Truth, ignite, Desire, electric
“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was like we were the only two people in the world. No one will ever understand how happy we were...I could sit there all night watching her, just the shape of her head and the way the hair…”— John Fowles, fowlesbooks.comTagged: beauty, Grace, Delicate, Love
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It see…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Nature, Sunsets, Walk, Hiking, Mountains
“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Yin And Yang, Part and Parcel, beauty, Roses, Flower