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

“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.”

“All beauty is sad. For it fades.”

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

“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”

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

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

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

“Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for “vulgarity”; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.”