Beauty Obsession Quotes

I'll never graduate from collagen.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

I think the desire to be with someone beautiful...I just had such a different experience growing up. To be in a position where you're lauded for things that you don't own - and don't think of yourself as - it's so bizarre.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes up a lot of space, and prevents people from what they're meant to be doing.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

Selling a lifestyle - whether it's a brand or an Instagram post - which teaches not just girls but people that your value is defined by what you look like is the most appalling thing that I could think of, especially as a woman.

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don't have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don't care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.