Beauty Quotes

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

18919 quotes

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"I wanted to tell the book thief many things about beauty and ugliness."
Death
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"Beauty still existed in the darkest times."
Death
C
"Beauty is a weapon the gods wield"
Circe
C
"I was not beautiful in the way they wanted"
Circe
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"Beauty exists even in darkness."
Marie-Laure
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"He is like a golden age—unrepeatible, irreplaceable."
Patroclus
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"I have known perfection, and his name is Achilles."
Patroclus
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"They were never again to recover the jasmine smell that Mrs. Iguarán had brought to the house."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The beauty of Macondo lay in its endless capacity for renewal."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so beautiful."
Liesel Meminger
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"Beauty is a curse to those who possess it."
Thetis
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"What is beautiful about a diamond is not the carbon."
Marie-Laure
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"The beauty of Remedios transcended the limits of reality."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"She was small, with a sharp nose and suffering eyes."
Death
C
"I had learned that beauty could be a weapon and a prison both."
Circe
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"She was wearing a dress of pale yellow."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She danced as if she were conducting the stars."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"Beauty fades, but power endures."
Circe
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"One could see that she had been beautiful once, perhaps even very beautiful."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"Beauty exists in proportion and grace and certain relations which admit no exceptions."
Judge Holden
G
"It was beautiful to see her move through the house with her infallible grace"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She was not beautiful for her beauty, but for the grace with which she accepted her own ugliness"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The smell of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fatal scent of beauty"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The only thing that was left was a golden trail of butterfly dust."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"I found beauty in the darkest corners of myself"
Circe
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"She understood that her beauty was a temporary gift destined to fade."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The beauty of the town lay in its inevitable decay."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"My flowers bloomed in colors the world had never seen."
Circe
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"The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass."
Gandalf
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"The universe is a thing of beauty and symmetry"
Judge Holden