Beauty Quotes

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

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"What is beautiful is good and what is good is true."
Judge Holden
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"Shug, you do have a pretty face though."
Celie
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"What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint."
Stevens
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"What is beautiful is often terrible."
Judge Holden
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"What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint."
Stevens
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Shug Avery
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"I love your hair when it kinky and wild."
Shug Avery
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Shug Avery
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"In the last analysis the beautiful things of the world are not of themselves beautiful."
Judge Holden
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"Beauty requires cruelty."
Serena Joy
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"It was a powerful fine sight to see."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Beauty is always dangerous"
Offred
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"There is beauty in acceptance."
Mariam
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"Your heart is a jewel."
Shug Avery
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"She prettier than God now."
Celie
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"We had the sky up there all speckled with stars."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Beauty can exist even in the darkest circumstances."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"She had a quality that the world couldn't touch."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"She had never known beauty until she understood solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Beauty and cruelty often walk hand in hand."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"Beauty is a terrible and frightful thing that we find difficult to comprehend"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."
Judge Holden
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"I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so beautiful."
Death
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"I wanted to tell the book thief many things about beauty."
Death
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"Her face was pale but beautiful in its darkness."
Death
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"Sometimes the most beautiful things are those we're not supposed to find."
Daniel Sempere
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"She understood finally that beauty fades but goodness remains."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"There was only one thing in the world as beautiful as Fermina Daza, and that was the world itself."
Florentino Ariza
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"Beauty is dangerous when it is real."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"She had never imagined that growing old could be so beautiful."
Fermina Daza