# Quote — Susan Cain, Bittersweet

> The tragedy of life is linked inescapably with its splendor; you could tear civilization down and rebuild it from scratch, and the same dualities would rise again. Yet to fully inhabit these dualities—the dark as well as the light—is, paradoxically, the only way to transcend them.

- Author: [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md)
- Book: [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Cain#Bittersweet) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/the-tragedy-of-life

## More from this book

> We’ve unwittingly taught (children) a delusion—that things are supposed to be whole; that real life is when things are going well; that disappointment, illness, and flies at the picnic are detours from the main road.

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/weve-unwittingly-taught.md)

> Our difficulty accepting impermanence is the heart of human suffering.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/our-difficulty-accepting.md)

> The place where you suffer is the same space where you commit yourself to act.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/the-place-where.md)