“Beauty that arose out of pain.”
Source: Catching Fire
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American television writer and novelist 1962Related quotes
Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 7
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor
As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
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“Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows”
Nick Bantock book Griffin and Sabine
Source: Griffin and Sabine
“Beauty can pierce one like pain.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman], Pt 11, Ch. 2
“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”
Arthur Golden (1956) American novelist