Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

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"Beauty is found in unexpected places."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Beauty fades but character endures."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
Fannie Hurst
"Beauty without purpose is decoration; beauty with purpose is art."
Marianne Moore
"Beauty is found in precision and in detail."
Marianne Moore
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"Beauty can pierce one like pain."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Beauty exists not just in appearance, but in righteous action."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Beauty exists in truth, and truth exists in beauty."
Amy Lowell
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"The soul requires beauty as much as the body requires food."
Amy Lowell
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"Beauty speaks a language that transcends words and cultures."
Amy Lowell
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"Beauty is the truth that remains when all else has been stripped away."
Amy Lowell
"The most beautiful lives are often the most complicated ones."
Fannie Hurst
"How can we say that the autumn feels miserable or joyful?"
Wallace Stevens
"The day of the sun is like the day of a king."
Wallace Stevens
"We do not listen to beauty easily because we are enslaved by habit."
Wallace Stevens
"We are the music while the music lasts."
Wallace Stevens
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"The difference between utility and beauty is only a question of time."
O. Henry
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"Beauty is that rare quality that makes us pause."
O. Henry
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"Beauty exists in the most unexpected places when we take time to see it."
Kate Chopin
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"Beauty is not in perfection, but in authenticity."
Kate Chopin
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"Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"The only sin is ugliness; everything else can be forgiven."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but so is truth."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Beauty lies in authenticity, never in pretense."
Fannie Hurst
"Beauty exists in the overlooked and the ordinary."
Fannie Hurst
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"The greatest gift is the ability to see beauty in ordinary things."
Amy Lowell
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"The beauty of life lies in its imperfection and transience."
Amy Lowell
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"Beauty teaches us that imperfection is essential to form."
Amy Lowell
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"Beauty is not in the face; it is a light in the heart."
O. Henry