Beauty Quotes

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

18919 quotes

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"Beauty will save the world"
Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
N
"Her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret."
Nick Carraway
N
"Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth."
Nick Carraway
N
"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles that seemed to understand you completely."
Nick Carraway
G
"The beautiful is only the beginning of the terrible."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
E
"The soul withers when beauty departs."
Emma Bovary
G
"The beautiful life often masks an ugly truth."
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
"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
"The beautiful things in life are those we cannot have"
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
L
"I have always been afraid of losing my beauty."
Lenina Crowne
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
N
"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly."
Nick Carraway
N
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time."
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
"What's the use of that gown if it's going to be all mussed up?"
Daisy Buchanan
D
"I was going to wear it tonight."
Daisy Buchanan
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
N
"Beauty is mystery. You cannot explain beauty."
Natasha Rostova
P
"Intoxication of youth and beauty."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
P
"True beauty is in the soul, not in the body."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
D
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there"
Dmitri Karamazov
N
"The beauty of human existence lies in its uncertainty."
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
D
"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"Beauty is mystery and all is mixed in it"
Dmitri Karamazov
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
S
"He said it was like a pink stalk covered with bloom."
Scout Finch
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