Profound Beauty Quotes

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.