Quotes about beauty

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! … God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 1, Book 3, chapter 3 ("The Confession of a Passionate Heart—in Verse")Dmitri Karamazov

Beauty will save the world.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPart 3, chapter 5Ippolit Terentyev

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and it really were so that the truth is outside Christ, I would rather remain with Christ than with the truth.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyLettersLetter to Natalya Fonvizina, end of January to late February 1854Fyodor Dostoevsky