“All beauty is sad. For it fades.”

“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”

“Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”

“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”

“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”

“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades”

“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”

“Beauty's of a fading nature
Has a season and is gone!”

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

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