Quotes about Beauty
Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candle-sticks. But the eternal and the everlasting salvation and grace is not upon her.
- William Faulkner
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
- William Golding
Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.
- Chris Fabry
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
- Heinrich Heine
Siempre hay flores para aquellos que desean verlas.
- Henri Matisse
We can never have enough of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
- Henry David Thoreau
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
- Henry David Thoreau
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau
Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.
- Henry Ford
Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher