#be

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#building #construction #does #failure #finished

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#being #else #get #nothing #simply

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#decides #end #hope #means #money

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#dead #death #idols #less #makes

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe. ↗

— Fred Couples

#hard #i #kind #lot #older

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells, Where evil comes up softly like a flower. Thou knowest, O Satan, patron of my pain, Not for vain tears I went up at that hour; But like an old sad faithful lecher, fain To drink delight of that enormous trull Whose hellish beauty makes me young again. Whether thou sleep, with heavy vapors full, Sodden with day, or, new appareled, stand In gold-laced veils of evening beautiful, I love thee, infamous city! Harlots and Hunted have pleasures of their own to give, The vulgar herd can never understand. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#poetry #beauty

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ↗

— Georges Courteline

#life #necessary #oneself #other #people

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#beauty

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years. ↗

— Jim Courier

#enough #i #lucky #myself #over