Quotes about Beauty

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.

Roses red and vi'lets blue, Sugar's sweet, and so are you

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it.

But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.

(Why flowers are so important to the main character) I need the reminder that God loves to make detailed and beautiful things, and that act of creation is itself a sufficient reason to make them. These flowers will live and die here, the majority of them never seen, even though a busy road is less than a mile away.