#beauty

I didn’t have to look at him to know I’d just lost everything I’d ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul. ↗

— Julie Bale

#julie-bale #new-adult #new-adult-romance #romance #beauty

So, I guess it's true what they say, beauty and brains don't always go together." Crow smiled. "Did you just call me dumb, but ridiculously good-looking? ↗

— John H. Ames

#beauty

Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.' And so we did. ↗

— Jim Beaver

#inspirational #life #love #beauty

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#relationships #beauty

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#cinema #cry #duty #emotion #laugh

.. the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... ↗

— Stephen King

#colors #colours #sunlight #beauty

Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still. ↗

— Mariko Tamaki

#beauty

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#beauty

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty