Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time – Albert Camus.

Beauty and folly are generally companions – Baltasar Gracian.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong – Buckminster Fuller.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart – Candace Bergen.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it – Confucius.

Beauty.. is the shadow of God on the universe – Gabriela Mistral.

Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head – Garrison Keillor.

Beauty – in projection and perceiving – is 99.9% attitude – Grey Livingston.

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye – Grey Livingston.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched.. but are felt in the heart – Helen Keller.

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? – Jean Kerr.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone – Johann von Goethe.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever – John Keats.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness – Leo Tolstoy.

I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness – Karl Lagerfeld.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror – Kahlil Gibran.

Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart – Nate Dircks.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future – Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Beauty?.. To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to – Pablo Picasso.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains – Pierre Auguste Renoir.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts – Rachel Carson.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility – Rachel Carson.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked – Saint Augustine.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything – Simone Weil.

Beauty is the promise of happiness – Stendhal.

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder – Virginia Woolf.