Thomas Carlyle Misery Quotations

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.