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