#beauty

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#happiness #beauty

A thick sapphire halo encased his startling pale blue iris. When I got closer, I noticed a starburst of aqua around his pupil. It wasn’t the beauty of his odd eyes, exactly, that made my knees nearly buckle. I didn’t know what it was, but I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. My heart danced wildly to his tune. ↗

— Christie Rich

#beauty

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#nature #beauty

In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#poetry #beauty

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Most of my beholders are blind. ↗

— Basith

#love #thoughts #beauty

Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end. ↗

— Peter Davis

#beauty

The hideousness {the author] sees is the reflection of himself, and of the automatic meat-lust with which he approaches another individual…Even the most “beautiful” woman is still a human creature. If {the author] approached her as such, as a being instead of as a piece of lurid meat, he would have no horrors afterwards. (in 1924, writing in response to a misogynistic article titled, 'The Ugliness of Women'.) ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#beauty

There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant") ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#femme-fatale #beauty

sometimes people wont like you but the question is do you love yourself are you the person you want to be you can do anything when you put your hart into it ↗

— rayanna phillips

#dreams #love #beauty

Love makes people beautiful, beautiful in the fact that those who are stricken by love become blind. Not being able to see the evils and pain in the world, that's the part that makes people beautiful on the inside. ↗

— Shannan Jacoby

#blind #love #beauty