Jed Rubenfeld

“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”

— Jed Rubenfeld

THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to…

— Jed Rubenfeld

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

— Jed Rubenfeld

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

— Jed Rubenfeld

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

— Jed Rubenfeld

“There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow…

— Jed Rubenfeld

“I know he is--sensitive--on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to…

— Jed Rubenfeld

“I am the deepest of unbelievers. Every neurosis is a religion to its owner and religions is the universal neurosis of mankind.…

— Jed Rubenfeld

“Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.”

— Jed Rubenfeld

“For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.”

— Jed Rubenfeld

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

— 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.…

— Jed Rubenfeld

“No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.”

— 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…

— Jed Rubenfeld

“The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love -- love is a crisis of the soul.”

— Jed Rubenfeld

“On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk,…

— Jed Rubenfeld

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

— Jed Rubenfeld

“All it takes is instinct.”

— Jed Rubenfeld

“The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good…

— 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…

— Jed Rubenfeld

“The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he…

— Jed Rubenfeld

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

— Jed Rubenfeld