Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Time
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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.
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Time has only a relative existence.
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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.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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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.
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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.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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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.
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