#beau

Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#ugliness #beauty

Oh my God, of course she was Lily—and she was sickeningly beautiful. Suddenly, I was even more nauseous than usual. I was going to vomit all over myself and be dubbed hurl-girl for the rest of eternity. I was going to throw up all over Lillian Hunt. - Nicole Abbot ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#whisper-of-light #beauty

Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am... ↗

— Paul Auster

#city-of-glass #peter-stillman #beauty

Everything that she saw glowing during the day seemed tarnished beside the light that was at the heart of the evening. the bleached color of things replaced by a beauty that stole into everything. the pale yellow leaves grew golden. The white gems opened up their hearts and shone. ↗

— Karen Foxlee

#beauty

Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are small and insignificant. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you? ↗

— Dorothy Mccoy

#beauty

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object. ↗

— Toba Beta

#beholder #object #quality #value #beauty

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#dangerous #dead #test #beauty

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#homelessness #poetic-fiction #beauty

Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful. ↗

— Ray Hudson

#beauty

It's so beautiful,Don't you think that's beautiful? It's coming home all the way to Austin, Texas ↗

— Vince Young

#beauty