Beauty Quote by Nathanael West

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so…

— Woody Allen

At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their…

— Carolyn Hart

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

— Haruki Murakami

There's a sadness about love, a melancholy and a sadness about beauty. It's just part of the human experience of living on this planet.

— James Newton Howard

Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as…

— Pierre Corneille

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

— Charles Baudelaire

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a…

— Maureen Corrigan

Beauty is a curse put on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination…

— Sonya Levien

I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

— James Nachtwey

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found…

— Friedrich Nietzsche