Bittersweet - Susan Cain

‘Bittersweet - How Sorrow and Longing Make us Whole’ captures the inexplicable, unexplainable, hauntingly beautiful, and exquisite force that is bittersweet or melancholia. Susan’s research explains that bittersweetness isn’t just a momentary feeling or event, but rather a quiet force, a way of being, and a storied tradition that has been examined and celebrated by philosophers, poets, mystics, artists, and psychologists for millennia.

“This melancholic direction, which I call the ‘bittersweet’, a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death - bitter and sweet - are forever paired.” - Susan Cain

For those that feel overwhelmingly moved by the beauty of the world while being overwhelmingly aware of the suffering at the same time.