„BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.“

— Ambrose Bierce

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„The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.“
— Dorothy Parker
„Beauty! Terrible Beauty!A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!“
— Homér
„Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they are like poison to the filmmaker or artist.“
— David Lynch
„Love what is simple and beautiful.These are the essentials.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway.“
— Margaret Atwood
„One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.“
— Sigmund Freud