Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips, MCR software, 1995.
-- George MacDonald, (Dec 10 1824-1905), Scottish novelist; He wrote allegories of man's pilgrimage back to God and juvenile fantasy, At the Back of the North Wind, 1871.