Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous.

I think that glamour is about confidence. I think however somebody feels beautiful, that's glamour.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

Just wear what you think looks beautiful.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.

Anyone can look beautiful.

There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.