Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Time (12 Quotes)

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.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Time has only a relative existence.

It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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

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

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

For the 'superior morality,' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this 'superior morality' is properly rather an 'inferior criminality'. . .

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.

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. . .