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152. “How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? – from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty, Emotion, Duality, Philosophical Insight, Poetic Reflection, Existential Complexity
153. “In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.” Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Idealization, Fantasy, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Poetic Expression
154. “He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower – is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.” Edgar Allan Poe Imagination, Perception, Beauty, Philosophical Insight, Exploration Of The Unknown, Artistic Experience
157. “It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us – but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave, we struggle, by multiform combinations among the things and thoughts of Time, to attain a portion of that Loveliness whose very elements, perhaps, appertain to eternity alone.” Edgar Allan Poe Desire, Beauty, Longing, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Aspiration, Poetic Metaphor
175. “The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried.” Aldous Huxley Language, Perception, Beauty, Cultural Experience, Emotional Impact, Sensory Description
179. “Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.” Aldous Huxley Life, Destiny, Change, Beauty, Horror, Philosophical Reflection
Beauty Quotes by Famous Authors
152. “How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? – from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Emotion, Duality, Philosophical Insight, Poetic Reflection, Existential Complexity
153. “In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”
Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Idealization, Fantasy, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Poetic Expression
154. “He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower – is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.”
Edgar Allan Poe Imagination, Perception, Beauty, Philosophical Insight, Exploration Of The Unknown, Artistic Experience
157. “It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us – but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave, we struggle, by multiform combinations among the things and thoughts of Time, to attain a portion of that Loveliness whose very elements, perhaps, appertain to eternity alone.”
Edgar Allan Poe Desire, Beauty, Longing, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Aspiration, Poetic Metaphor
175. “The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried.”
Aldous Huxley Language, Perception, Beauty, Cultural Experience, Emotional Impact, Sensory Description
179. “Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.”
Aldous Huxley Life, Destiny, Change, Beauty, Horror, Philosophical Reflection
