#beauty

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#beauty

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#reading #beauty

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that ↗

— Koushun Takami

#flowers #beauty

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#sonnet- #beauty

And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest. ↗

— Cressida Cowell

#despair #hope #humanity #inspiration #beauty

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#drunk #familiar #beauty

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#judgement #opinion #beauty

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#beauty

There are some people that you just can't help but look at. Not necessarily because they're beautiful, just because you see them, and you know, you just know, that they're gonna be something special. You can just feel it when you're in their presence. ↗

— L

#philosphical #special #beauty