Beauty - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

Have fun reading it, this is really interesting and breathtaking!

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

- Yevgeny Zamiatin, We (1924), translated by Mirra Ginsburg (1972)

[On King Kong's death:] It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.

- James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose, King Kong (film, 1933)

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (1950)

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

- Theodore Sturgeon, ''Saucer of Loneliness'' (1953)

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

- Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (1956)

The deer knew that the boy thought her beautiful. For it was the purpose of the deer in this world on that morning to be beautiful for a young boy to look at.

- Craig Strete, ''Time Deer'' (1974)

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

- George R. R. Martin, ''TheWay of Cross and Dragon'' (1979)

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Friday (1982)

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

- Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (1987)

They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.

- Joan Slonczewski, TheWall around Eden (1989)

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992)

How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992)

People give up the earth for beauty.

- Esther M. Friesner, ''Big Hair'' (2000)

It was her scars that made her beautiful.

- Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History (2000)