These loveliness quotes will inspire you. Loveliness, the quality of being very beautiful or attractive.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging loveliness quotes, loveliness sayings, and loveliness proverbs.
Best Loveliness Quotes
- “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” ~ George Washington Carver
- “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” ~ John Keats
- “My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.” ~ Michelangelo
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“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
- “For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.” ~ Evelyn Underhill
- “Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” ~ George Jean Nathan
- “God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.” ~ George MacDonald
- “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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“I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.” ~ Adeline Knapp
- “She is loveliness itself.” ~ Jane Austen
- “Life 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
- “The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.” ~ Josephine Winslow Johnson
- “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” ~ John Keats
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“Spend all you have for loveliness.” ~ Sara Teasdale
- “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
- “To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
- “What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.” ~ Geneen Roth
- “So he lent her books. After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I’ve drunk.” ~ William T. Vollmann
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“Life 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.” ~ Sara Teasdale
- “To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.” ~ Archibald MacLeish
- “beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.” ~ William Carlos Williams
- “Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.” ~ Alfred Sisley
- “The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.” ~ John Strachan
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“At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.” ~ Jean Rhys
- “Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature’s loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
- “What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences… To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return. It’s very simple.” ~ Thomas Berry
- “Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.” ~ Margaret Cho
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“One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness” ~ Miriam
- “It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God” ~ Fred Rogers
- “Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.” ~ Thomas Hardy
- “Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers – a living prismatic gem…. it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.” ~ William Henry Hudson
- “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.” ~ Sara Teasdale
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“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” ~ Therese of Lisieux
- “I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.” ~ John Keats
- “Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
- “Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.” ~ Jane Porter
- “For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.” ~ Robert Farrar Capon
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“The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.” ~ Caryll Houselander
- “I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.” ~ Edward Abbey
- “The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.” ~ Herman Melville
- “Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother’s face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.” ~ Robert Goolrick
- “There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.” ~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
- “Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.” ~ Charlie Chaplin
- “The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn.” ~ Christina Rossetti -
“All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Remain quiet. Don’t feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
- “Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.” ~ Jane Porter
- “The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with “me” and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.” ~ Anthony de Mello
- “As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.” ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- “I’m never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova… All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.” ~ Scott Sanders
- “That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.” ~ Asahel Nettleton
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“I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.” ~ Oswald Chambers
- “It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.” ~ Sydney, Lady Morgan
- “How full and rich a world
Theirs to inhabit is–
Sweet scent of grass and bloom,
Playmates’ glad symphony,
Cool touch of western wind,
Sunshine’s divine caress.
How should they know or feel
They are in darkness?
But, oh, the miracle!
If a Redeemer came,
Laid finger on their eyes–
One touch and what a world,
New-born in loveliness!” ~ Israel Zangwill -
“There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.” ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
- “Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.” ~ N.D. Wilson - “God’s wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God” ~ D. A. Carson
