Beauty Quotes

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

18919 quotes

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"Beauty is difficult and it's a sacred trust."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty lies in the details that others overlook."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The beautiful is always strange."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The poetry of life lies in the details."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Beauty is not eternal; it is fleeting."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"True beauty transcends the physical."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Beauty touches something eternal."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Beauty without purpose is merely decoration."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The beauty of a moment is in its transience."
Boris Pasternak
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"Beauty reveals what truth cannot fully express."
Boris Pasternak
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
Maxim Gorky
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"Beauty is found in the most unexpected places."
Maxim Gorky
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"Beauty is a tremendous force."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The sense of beauty is the sense of truth."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Beauty exists in the smallest things."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Beauty fades, but character endures."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The soul requires beauty as the body requires food."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"And you know, I still believe that beauty salons are born from a woman's heart."
Anton Chekhov
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"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul."
Anton Chekhov
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"Beauty fades, but the memory of beauty can sustain a lifetime of aching."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Beauty whispers what power shouts."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The real thing, the real quivering tender moist gleam of a eye looking at you."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The butterfly, the moment it spreads its wings, has already settled the question of beauty."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The most beautiful thing in the world is the precise description of a feeling."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty is the rarest and most precious thing in the universe."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty is the only truth that matters."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty is a fleeting shadow that vanishes upon close inspection."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The beautiful is often found in the overlooked and ordinary."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Beauty is mysterious, like life itself"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible"
Fyodor Dostoevsky