Beauty Quotes

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

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"Beauty is found not in perfection but in authenticity."
John Steinbeck
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"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder but also in the soul of the creator."
John Steinbeck
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"Beauty is in the eye of the broken."
William Faulkner
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"The night is beautiful, so the faces of my people."
Langston Hughes
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"The beauty of humanity is in its diversity."
Langston Hughes
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"The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always being so very much fun."
Ernest Hemingway
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"All the bright precious things fade so fast."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Her voice was full of money."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Youth is the most beautiful thing in the world."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The most beautiful thing God ever made was a woman's laugh."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The inability to see beauty marks a degree of spiritual sickness."
James Baldwin
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"Women have always been the guardians of wisdom and beauty in this world."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Beauty is a worse mistress than any political intrigue."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The main thing that people with good bodies do is display them."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The world is an ugly place at times, but there is much beauty in it."
Ernest Hemingway
"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it."
Theodore Dreiser
"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty."
Theodore Dreiser
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"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The beautiful and damned."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"She was a golden girl."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"All the joy in the world cannot equal a single great beauty."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Youth and beauty are not circumstances but essences."
Edith Wharton
"The summer moon hangs full above the prairie and makes it as bright as day."
Willa Cather
"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
Willa Cather
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"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has gone; it's that America has overlooked poetry, that America always goes busy to regard the simple beautiful things of living."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Beauty is a form of genius, and it is higher than genius because it does not need to be explained."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The beauty of nature is in its simplicity and honesty."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The beauty of life is in its impermanence."
Ernest Hemingway