Tag: Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne on the Transcendent Torture of Romantic Friendship – Brain Pickings

But as beautiful and vitalizing as such more-than-friendships can be, they tend to be inevitably dampened by an undercurrent of disappointment, a quiet undulating heartache that comes from the disconnect between the enormity one or both persons long for and the lesser-than reality permitted by the other person’s nature or the circumstances of one or both of their lives.

Sir Thomas Browne on the Transcendent Torture of Romantic Friendship – Brain Pickings