#beauty

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

One by one the angels had come to the top of Har Megiddo where I sat, holding her body close to mine after she'd died. I'd fought alongside them in battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. the angels weren't supposed to feel emotions, but they were all weeping. All of them. Their tear stained their flawless faces like rain running in rivulets across stone. Azrael was the only one of then who came to me, knelt in front of me and took her from my arms. He was the angel of death come to carry his sister home. I din't want to give her up, knowing it would be the last time I ever saw her face. I had died on that wretched hill with her. ↗

— Courtney Allison Moulton

#can-t-be-happening #crying #loving #sad #beauty

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#become #being #better #good #i

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

#advantageous #beauty #case #delicate #every

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. ↗

— David Hume

#felt #moral #more #natural #perceived

Beauty is a fragile gift. ↗

— Ovid

#fragile #gift

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#appreciation #beauty #elegance #finer #get

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. ↗

— Janis Ian

#clear #high #high school #i #learned

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#beauty

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#cannot #eternal #fire #heat #separated