„There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.“

— Stephen King

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„It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.“
— Cassandra Clare
„If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. …by beauty all things become beautiful. …by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.“
— Socrates
„He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.“
— Michael Ende
„God doesn't make mistakes. So if I'm supposed to die, there's a very good reason for it. I'm not going to question him. I'm just going to enjoy all these beautiful things that God created.“
— Ben Carson
„I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.“
— Erich Maria Remarque
„Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.“
— Vincent Van Gogh