Junot Diaz Quotes

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 in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

Beauty is subjective, so people's opinions don't really matter.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby!

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.