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Beautiful Thing Quotes (page 13)

Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thomas Hardy quote: "Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized."
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. Thomas Hardy
Janice Dickinson quote: "Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even..."
Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve. Janice Dickinson
Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect. Eudora Welty
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because..."
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and will never be fathome? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but,..."
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am not a cultivated man, brother, but I've thought a lot about this. It's terrible what mysteries there are! Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve them as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Hume quote: "Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them."
Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them. David Hume
David Hume quote: "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume
Robert Mapplethorpe quote: "Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
Beauty and the devil are the same thing. Robert Mapplethorpe
Jean Anouilh quote: "Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt..."
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh quote: "Things are beautiful if you love them."
Things are beautiful if you love them. Jean Anouilh
I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful. John Fowles
One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in themselves sinful is much increased by religion. God is the God of the Beautiful—Religion is the love of the Beautiful, and Heaven is the Home of the Beautiful—-Nature is tenfold brighter in the Sun of Righteousness, and my love of Nature is more intense... George MacDonald
You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it. Clive Barker

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