Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. -Marcus Aurelius

We don’t feel at ease here- we are surrounded by too much beauty. -Sidonie Gabrielle

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. -Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. -Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. -Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. -Homer

She has no idea. The effect she can have. -Suzanne Collins

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun. -Suzanne Collins

The earth laughs in flowers. -E. E. Cummings

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. -Edgar Allan Poe