The perfection of her face created a sense of emptiness--like a house with no curtains in the window.
- Small is the worth
- Of beauty from the light retired:
- Bid her come forth,
- Suffer herself to be desired,
- And not blush so to be admired.
EDMUND WALLER, Go, Lovely Rose
Ne'er boast; for beauty is a dream that fades.
THEOCRITUS, "A Countryman's Wooing"
Beauty, of course, is an asset. But the girls who have greenbacks don't have to worry over not having pink faces.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs
A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
ALAIN DE BOTTON, The Architecture of Happiness
- The pageant of a former hour,
- Is Beauty in the Grave.
WILLIAM B. TAPPAN, "Beauty in the Grave"
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
AMÉLIE NOTHOMB, Fear and Trembling
True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
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