Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Whole

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.99, CUP Archive

• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Men, Goodness

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

• In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Book, Past

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Change, Truth

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

• The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Past, Wicked

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dream, Time, Lying

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Memories, Past

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Past, Remembrance

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

• The whole past is the procession of the present.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Whole

• Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Names, History

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36

• The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Attractive, Drained

• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Endurance, Cheerfulness

• At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Perfect

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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