Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

- Jed Rubenfeld

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

- Jed Rubenfeld

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

- Jed Rubenfeld

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however un…

- Jed Rubenfeld

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

- Jed Rubenfeld

Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become highly trou…

- Jed Rubenfeld

There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it i…

- Jed Rubenfeld

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

- Jed Rubenfeld

But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man ne…

- Jed Rubenfeld