„Beauty! Terrible Beauty!A deathless Goddess– so she strikes our eyes!“

— Homér

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„Who on earth could blame them? Ah, no wonderthe men of Troy and Argives under arms have sufferedyears of agony all for her, for such a woman.Beauty, terrible beauty!A deathless goddess—so she strikes our eyes!“
— Homér
„Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.“
— Camille Paglia
„A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.“
— C.G. Jung
„There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.“
— Terry Pratchett
„All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.“
— W.B. Yeats