So tired!

“I have been awfully busy… And it tires me so that generally I go to bed again the next minute after I get up:  and sometimes I go to bed again a minute before  I get up!  Did you ever hear of any one being so tired as that ?”

—Lewis Carroll, 1879

Blind cheerfulism

“At any rate, I remain cheerful — if only through some inner necessity. Cheerfulness will prevail. I believe it in my bones… While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he was sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”

—H. G. Wells, Apropos of Dolores, 1938