#image

Men always makes gods in their own image. ↗

— Xenophanes

#image #xenophanes #men

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#self-image #consciousness

I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see. ↗

— Douglas Pagels

#judgement #superficiality #awareness

[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, ‘retouching artists’ conspire to ‘help’ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age...By now readers have no idea what a real woman’s 60 year old face looks like in print because it’s made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they’re comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine. ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#beauty #body-image #editing #magazines #self-esteem

]sing to us the one with violets in her lap ]mostly ]goes astray ↗

— Sappho

#imagery #poetry #beauty

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #self-esteem #self-image #society #beauty

John Longridge, the cook at Harley-street, had suffered from low spirits for more than thirty years, and he was quick to welcome Stephen as a newcomer to the freemasonry of melancholy. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#humor #beauty

There were no stars, or if they were they shone like volcanic glass. ↗

— J.V. Jones

#beauty

The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#beauty

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#death