“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”

“Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.”

“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all”

“Beauty and grace command the world.”

“It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.”

“Beauty belongs to the beloved who returns the gaze, in whose eyes we see the sun. But in this . . . beauty, in the mutual gaze, also lies the beginning of terror --awe, idealization, overstimulation, violation, loss.”