„For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.“

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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„Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.“
— C.G. Jung
„Birds' songs express joy, beauty, and purity, and evoke in us vitality and love. So many beings in the universe love us unconditionally. The trees, the water, and the air don't ask anything of us; they just love us. Even though we need this kind of love, we continue to destroy them. By destroying the animals, the air, and the trees, we are destroying ourselves.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.“
— Mary Oliver