"He who has not cried long and hard at night is not good enough to talk about life" is from Thomas Carlyle's "He who has not cried hard at night is not good enough to talk about life." The meaning is: no one who has not cried in the long and slow night can not discuss the topic of life with him.
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, critic, satirist, historian, and teacher.
He was regarded as the foremost social commentator of his time, and in his lifetime delivered many important speeches that were acclaimed in the Victorian era, and his work was influential in the Victorian era.
His attitude to life: We do not have the power to stop what has happened, but we do have the power to change the impact of what has happened on our lives now. Accept what has happened and change what can be changed.
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Classic Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
1. Thought is the basis of human behavior; feeling is the origin of human thought; and it is the invisible spiritual world of mankind that determines the body and existence of mankind.
2, all the boundless tide, people and the whole universe is like a mist on the drifting tide, like a ghost that appears from time to time.
3. One's first duty is to conquer fear. People must get rid of fear, otherwise nothing will be accomplished. A person does not put fear underfoot, then, his behavior is slavish, inauthentic, and flashy;
His thoughts are hypocritical, and what he thinks is just like slaves and cowards ...... In short, to be fearless, no matter now or in the future, the degree of a person to conquer fear will determine how he is a man.
4. Laughter is based on sincerity and sorrow, just as a rainbow is based on a ferocious storm.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Thomas Carlyle