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красота требует жертвstresses
gen. beauty requires sacrifice (Alexander Demidov); beauty is pain (Bullfinch); you must suffer to be beautiful (Alexander Oshis)
inf. beauty needs sacrifice (buy skinny jeans: beauty needs sacrifice Val_Ships); a woman must suffer to be beautiful (Giovanna, known for her strong opinions (comparable to, in her mind, Eleanor Roosevelt), believed that "a woman must suffer to be beautiful" and subjected herself to uncomfortable high fashion, and relished the dazzle of Manhattan's city lights and trips to the Metropolitan Opera. mit.edu Ая)
ironic. beauty demands sacrifice (VLZ_58)
proverb beauty has its price (Юрий Гомон); beauty is painful (Юрий Гомон); beauty's a cruel mistress (Andrey Truhachev)
saying. beauty knows no pain (denghu)