Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Vision, Eternity

• Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Silence, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.162, Univ of California Press

• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Shallow Person, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Lying, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

• History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Historical, Theatre

• Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Looks, Eternity

• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Home, Biblical

• One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Second Chance, Two

  Thomas Carlyle (1860). “Passages selected from the writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a biogr. memoir by T. Ballantyne”, p.207

• The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Wise, Clever

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 617), 1895.

• So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Night, Blue

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.356

• Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, New Day, Return

  Thomas Carlyle, “Today”

• Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eternity, Earnestness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

• What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Years, Two

• Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Events, Gone, World

• Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Eternity, Confluence

  "The French Revolution, A History" by Thomas Carlyle, part I, book VI, chapter V., 1837.

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