Beauty Quote by Maggie Nelson

“There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.”

— Dodie Smith

“Beauty becomes tinged with sadness when experienced alone.”

— Ava Zavora

“Did she not have it all, the beauty, the brains, the breeding, the brilliant marriage? Yet I felt a tangible sadness lurking within…”

— Tatiana de Rosnay

“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the…

— Arthur Golden

“Your sadness doesn’t make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open.…

— Panache Desai

“I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades.”

— Cassandra Duffy

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I…

— Anne Frank

“Is there any beauty like the bliss of being?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.”

— Angela Carter

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to…

— George Eliot

“She was always kind of sad, even when she smiled.”

— Ann Hood

“She was abstractly beautiful, as I had always wished to be, but I now found her ugly, understanding as I did now that real…

— Charlotte McConaghy