Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Idleness

Quotes about: Idleness

• Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Labor, Idleness

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.16, CUP Archive

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Vices, Nine, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.38

• In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Despair, Perpetual, Idleness

• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Despair

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

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