“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”

“If music is a word, it is a beautiful world for me”

“I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.”

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

“Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.”

“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

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

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

“He dooms himself. He is his own sad jest.”