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Susan Cain

“We like art forms that express our longing for union, and for a more perfect and beautiful world. When we feel strangely thrilled by the sorrow of "Moonlight Sonata," it's the yearning for love that we're experiencing--fragile, fleeting, evanescent, precious, transcendent love.”

Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
tags: art, longing, love, sadness
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
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