'You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The middle class accepts historical invisibility as the cost of comfort and silence.
- In plain terms
- Comfort costs you historical recognition and pity.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that comfort trades away legacy.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What legacy do I leave?
- Is comfort worth invisibility?
Another view
Not all comfortable lives lack historical significance.
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