# Quote — Susan Cain, Bittersweet

> We listen to sad music for the same reason we go to church or synagogue or the mosque. We long for the Garden of Eden, we long for Mecca, we long for Zion because we come into this world with the sense that there is a more perfect and beautiful world to which we belong, where we are no longer.

- 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/we-listen-to-sad

## 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 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/the-tragedy-of-life.md)