„… But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful…“

— Virginia Woolf

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„How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.“
— Tennessee Williams
„God knows we’re all drawn to what’s beautiful and broken.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.“
— Cassandra Clare
„The beauty of things must be that they end.“
— Jack Kerouac
„The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright
„I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.“
— Anne Frank
„Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.“
— Vladimir Nabokov