Unnoticed Beauty Quotes

Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done.

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Girls don't really recognize me on the street. No one has tried to serenade me or rip my shirt off.

People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

No one looks twice at me when they're around, and 'Cinderella' has made no difference. And I know that isn't going to change.

I've never been the sexy or the cute girl.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.