#beau

I won't cry because it came to an end, but I will smile because it happened ↗

— Karla M. Nashar

#beauty

But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair ↗

— Relient K

#beauty

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#humanism #marxism #poetry #rosa-luxemburg #beauty

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#decadent #god #life #beauty

Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#beauty

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. ↗

— James Dean

#also #am #appreciate #beauty #became

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#art #beautiful #become #deception #events

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#dawn #mistaken #sunset

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#beautiful #lies #most #most beautiful

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#beautiful #book #development #example #feels