Beauty Quotes

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

18919 quotes

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"Beauty fades, but the hunger for it never dies"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Daisy's voice is like music, almost like the sound of money."
Nick Carraway
N
"Her eyes were wide, clear, and kind."
Nick Carraway
D
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"The world will be saved by beauty."
Dmitri Karamazov
G
"Her beauty had promised her more than life could deliver"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
E
"What is the good of beauty if it brings only suffering?"
Emma Bovary
G
"She was beautiful, but beauty could not save her."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
D
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"The cruel heart is incapable of experiencing beauty."
Dmitri Karamazov
M
"Beauty fades but wisdom endures."
Marya Bolkonskaya
G
"She had tasted paradise, and now all else was ash."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Beauty without happiness is the cruelest torture."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
N
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time."
Nick Carraway
N
"His smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life."
Nick Carraway
R
"The beauty of a woman's soul transcends all rational understanding."
Raskolnikov
D
"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world."
Daisy Buchanan
N
"Her smile was a well-known smile—a smile of eternal reassurance."
Nick Carraway
P
"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing!"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
G
"She was beautiful, but beauty cannot sustain the soul."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
G
"She was beautiful precisely because she was unhappy."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
N
"Daisy's voice is like a human being."
Nick Carraway
G
"Beauty fades, but the memory of it burns eternal."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
G
"She was a flower blooming in winter, destined to wilt."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
N
"Daisy's voice was the most charming voice in the world."
Nick Carraway
P
"Beauty is a mysterious power."
Pierre Bezukhov
D
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Dmitri Karamazov
G
"Her beauty was her only weapon in this world."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
N
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Natasha Rostova
D
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"
Dmitri Karamazov