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“What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.344, The New Press
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“a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.”
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“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
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“Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.”
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“We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.”
Source : Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013. 
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“Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.”
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“This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.”
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“In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.”
Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”
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“I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.”
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“The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.”
