“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you.”
Letter to W. W. Norton, 17 February, 1931
1930s
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