John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
The Cherubinic Wanderer
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Che 'l perder l'acquistato e maggior doglia
Che mai non acquistar quel che l'uom voglia.
XXV, 58
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
“For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.”
Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis,
nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit.
Book I, epistle xvii, line 9
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.”
Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 26, "Prospect theory", page 288 (ISBN 9780141033570).
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
No. 1, He Who Binds
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792), Several Questions Answered
Elie Wiesel book Night
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Robert McAfee Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McAfee_Brown. Preface for the 25th anniversary edition of Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_%28book%29. Page v, Bantam Books paperback; 1982 reissue edition.