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

“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.”

“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”

“And yet I feel so sad for some reason.”

“You can not be an absurd optimist, but you can not have a sad or cramped approach because at the moment so is out of reality.”

“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”

“I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.”

“God! that this Earth should be so beautiful,
And yet so wretched!”

“So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.”