“Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.”

“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true.”

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd…”

“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”

“All beauty is sad. For it fades.”

“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”

“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”

“Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”