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

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

“I love everything
So don't it make you feel sad
'cause I'll drink to you, my baby
I'll think to that, I'll think to that”

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

“if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?”

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

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

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

“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”

“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”