Beauty Quotes

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

18919 quotes

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"Beauty is terrible and strange, beauty is not soothing like you thought."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I have learned that beauty and pain are often the same thing."
Anna Akhmatova
"True beauty lies beneath the surface"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"The aesthetic moment is that instant when the eternal breaks through the temporal."
Søren Kierkegaard
S
"Beauty reveals the presence of the eternal in the temporal world."
Søren Kierkegaard
A
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
August Strindberg
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
Selma Lagerlöf
S
"The soul needs beauty as the body needs sustenance."
Selma Lagerlöf
S
"The pursuit of beauty in all things elevates the human spirit."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Beauty without purpose is merely distraction."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Beauty in nature is not something to be collected and owned, but something to be experienced."
Boris Pasternak
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"Beauty is not in the face; it is a light in the heart."
Boris Pasternak
B
"True beauty lies in simplicity and authenticity."
Boris Pasternak
"Beauty exists in struggle as much as in serenity."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Beauty is the evidence of meaning in the universe."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"I am drawn to the beauty of broken things, for they tell true stories."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Beauty lies in the depths of our wounds, not in their absence."
Anna Akhmatova
A
"The beauty of human connection lies in its very fragility and impermanence."
Anna Akhmatova
V
"There is no time for despair in a world of beauty."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, suns, stars."
Vladimir Nabokov
A
"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing."
August Strindberg
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"Beauty without depth is merely decoration."
August Strindberg
S
"Every person has an inner beauty that shines through when they act with kindness."
Selma Lagerlöf
S
"Beauty lies not in the face, but in the depth of character."
Selma Lagerlöf
S
"True beauty is invisible to those who have not learned to see with their hearts."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Beauty is the visible sign of invisible truth."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
H
"Youth will always spring up in this world as long as there is any such thing as motherhood; it is the eternal spirit of truth and beauty."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Beauty dwells in truth; truth dwells in beauty."
Henrik Ibsen
H
"The human soul yearns for beauty in all its forms."
Henrik Ibsen
B
"Beauty is mysterious and inexplicable in the same way as music is."
Boris Pasternak