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Quotes About Beauty

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.
~ Nelson Mandela
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
~ John Updike
There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.
~ Sarah Ruhl
I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
~ James Frey
You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
~ James Clavell
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
~ David Mamet
I don't like plain nails. I get sad.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Black is not sad... Black is poetic.
~ Ann Demeulemeester
Everything is so sad and so wonderful.
~ Cloris Leachman
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
~ George Jean Nathan
It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.
~ Keri Russell
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
~ William Shakespeare
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
~ William Wordsworth
It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.
~ India.Arie
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
~ Jean Rhys
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.
~ Lights
Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!
~ Jeff Belanger
The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.
~ Sylvia Plath
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.
~ Patricia MacLachlan