33 Inspiring Beauty Quotes

In a world where beauty often feels defined by fleeting trends and external standards, it's refreshing to be reminded of the deeper essence that truly inspires us. The profound power of beauty lies in its ability to evoke emotion, inspire confidence, and reveal truth. Through timeless words and soulful reflections, inspiring beauty quotes can lift our spirits and offer fresh perspectives on the meaning of beauty in our everyday lives. Whether you're seeking motivation, enlightenment, or simply a moment of reflection, this curated collection of the top 33 inspiring beauty quotes will captivate your heart and encourage you to see the splendor within and around you. Join us on this journey of self-discovery and inspiration, where each quote serves as a gentle reminder of the beauty that permeates our existence.

1. “ Pied Beauty— "Glory be to God for dappled things--For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough;And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.All things counter, original, spare, strange;Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:Praise Him.” - Gerard Manley Hopkins

2. “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.” - Yukio Mishima

3. “Beauty should be edible, or not at all.” - Salvador Dali

4. “Schönheit ist Ewigkeit, die sich in einem Spiegel anschaut. - Aber ihr seid die Ewigkeit, und ihr seid der Spiegel.” - Khalil Gibran

5. “If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “BarterLife has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.” - Sara Teasdale

7. “You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.” - Alex Flinn

8. “To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.” - Author-Poet Aberjhani

9. “In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.” - Clarice Lispector

10. “You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur” - Karl Lagerfeld

11. “I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change” - Karl Lagerfeld

12. “She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upon her. Hers was the sort that would not fade or grow jaded with time and years, but flourish, grow more radiant with life and its experience. Hers was a beauty that no other possessed. A beauty he longed to keep, to hide away, to bask in, himself alone. She had become his. He didn’t know when, whether it had been the moment her fingertips had touched him when he was hurt, or if it had grown, like a seed, slowing spreading until Jane had become the root anchoring the shattered pieces of his heart, pulling them tight together until it resembled the organ it should.” - Charlotte Featherstone

13. “And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.” - John Milton

14. “She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. “Do you mind if I objectify you?”“Please do,” he said over his shoulder. “Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected.”“Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn’t be.”“It hardly matters, sweet; once they’ve come off, the attention isn’t likely to center on my absurdly handsome knees.” - Meljean Brook

15. “Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.” - Jennifer Hudock

16. “The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.” - Alan Hollinghurst

17. “As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.” - Suzanne Collins

18. “Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.” - Marilyn Waring

19. “When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning.” - Naomi Wolf

20. “Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations, and beauty pornography offered them designer bondage.” - Naomi Wolf

21. “Wow Kelsey!" Kishan whistled. "I'm going to have to beat the other guys of with a stick!” - Colleen Houck

22. “If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.” - Hilary Thayer Hamann

23. “I dare you to say I’m not ugly.” - Angela Morrison

24. “Beautiful is not something you become. It's something you already are.” - Peter Mis

25. “Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.” - Sri Chinmoy

26. “قلت صلني فإنني لك باقٍ ولو أن الكـثــيـر لــيـس بـبــــاققال من كـان في الجـمال وحـيـداً لا يبالي بكثرة العـشـاق” - مصطفى صادق الرافعي

27. “The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.” - Anthony Liccione

28. “And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.” - John Steinbeck

29. “She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellow’d to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.One shade the more, one ray the less,Had half impaired the nameless graceWhich waves in every raven tress,Or softly lightens o’er her face;Where thoughts serenely sweet expressHow pure, how dear their dwelling-place.And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,The smiles that win, the tints that glow,But tell of days in goodness spent,A mind at peace with allA heart whose love is innocent!” - George Gordon Byron

30. “We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.” - Philip Pullman

31. “...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look...” - John Geddes

32. “...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...” - John Geddes

33. “In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.” - Robert Ringer