Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

Beauty surrounds us.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.