Quotes about Beauty

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

We are seekers of beauty, but avoid extravagance. We admire learning, but are unimpressed by pedantry. For us, wealth is an aim for its value when used, not as an empty boast. And the disgrace of poverty lies not in the admission of it, but more in the failure to avoid it in practice.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

And however crazy, or Christian, or unchristian things may be outside, this world, this beautiful world is quite indestructible.

For, just as love embodies the life of all virtues and expresses the inmost substance of all holiness, humility is the precondition and basic presupposition for the genuineness, the beauty, and the truth of all virtue.

love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.