“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”– Walter Benjamin Related Quotes “Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.”– Hans Urs von Balthasar “It’s sad when girls think they don’t have anything going on except being pretty.”– Keri Russell “Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.”– Margaret Cho