“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”

“But she bloomed on earth, where the most beautiful things have the saddest destiny;
And Rose, she lived as live the roses, for the space of a morning.”

“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”

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

“the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.”

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

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

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

“It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.”