Et in Arcadia Ego

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

Beauty was a weapon as well, one Viola enjoyed wielding.

I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep.

Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe.”Worn and old, just like Viv,” he’d say when Frankie made fun...

The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of shapes and forms that made the tips of a person’s toes tingle, so...

Beauty could be defined simply as ‘that which pleases.’ But there is another aspect to art, and that… is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as...

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.

In the dynamics of the main family of the story, a rising socialist in England’s postwar government expects his grandparents to be pleased that the local aristocrat’s garden is commandeered to allow the people to...

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which...

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn’t that sad to judge others with our standards… rather than appreciate them?

There’s something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn’t...

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh’ beautiful again unless it be the sight of you?

when I see you, I see mystery – a pale moon’s beauty behind a veil of cloud

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a...

Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.According to Appel, cult members develop…”an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution...

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Maybe anything could become the most beautiful thing in the world if you gave in fully, let it take you over, let it be all you had.

Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.

For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once...

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing...

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterwards.

Light falls upon a dew drop; rewarding all who are blessed to witness the moments of its glisten.

When Eleanor was a little girl, she’d thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.Not a princess – princesses are just pretty. Eleanor’s mother was beautiful. She was tall...

Beauty gathered in the brightness of the sunny hours – is often best remembered in the quiet dark.

i’d rather be beautiful on thee inside where it is never seen by the world but always seen by the one true living God

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

Terre en vacance d’oeuvres d’art. Je méprise ceux qui ne savent reconnaître la beauté que transcrite déjà et toute interprétée. Le peuple arabe a ceci d’admirable que, son art, il le vit, il le chante...

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me…

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Simplicity = Beauty (how things look) + Elegance (how things work)

IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear — O Lady! in this wan and heartless...

As to Bell’s talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but … its commercial value will be limited.

With you there are only two distances that matter:Here.Not here.You are not here.

It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there’s nothing to understand.

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height...

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be.

You can only access the beautiful world through faith by truthfully embracing beauty and caring.

I have never seen an ugly woman.

Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery–which is part of its splendour.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw...

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.