“All beauty is sad. For it fades.”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 16
“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”
— Jean Rhys, book Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
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François de Malherbe (1555–1628) (1555–1628) French poet, critic, and translator
Mais elle était du monde, où les plus belles choses
Ont le pire destin;
Et Rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses,
L'espace d'un matin.
Letter of condolence to M. Du Perrier on the loss of his daughter, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 680
“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”
Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer
Source: Candy
“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”
Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet
“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”
John Fowles book The Collector
Source: The Collector
“It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist