Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Time, Sorrow

• No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Romance, Age, Romanticism

• The age of miracles is forever here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Miracle, Forever, Age

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.151

• The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Giving, Romance

• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Long, Age, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.235

• Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Nature, Years

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

• The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Yesterday, Forever

• A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mother, Opportunity, Age

• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Spiritual, Age

• This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Skills, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.193

• Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Men, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.356, CUP Archive

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