Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• 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

• Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

• 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'.

• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Hero, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

• 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'.

• 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

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Looks, Eternity

• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

• If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

• Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Naps, Way

• 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'

• 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

• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Stars, Work

• 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

• O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Forever, Roaring

  Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1973). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834”, Duke University Press Books

• Time has only a relative existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Existence, Relative

  Thomas Carlyle (2012). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872”, p.31, tredition

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Yesterday, Forever

• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Youth, Glad

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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