“I hope you find something real, because nothing is more beautiful than loving someone who loves you back. Nothing is more beautiful than loving someone who builds you a home in their heart.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.”— Elliott Kay, goodreads.com
“I know I’m complicated… I feel things deeply but my desire is like a pure crystal. This is the rarest, most beautiful part of me, that sparkles brightly in the crowd.”— Qiu Miaojin, amazon.com
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“I’m this girl. I’m a no makeup girl. I was trying to create this public image that was elegant and stylish, but that was just so clueless because I should have focused on who I really am instead.”— Louise Linton, washingtonlife.com
“See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.”— Anna Akhmatova, amazon.com
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.”— Gene Amole, amazon.com
“Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com