Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Death
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher and one of the most prominent Victorian moral voices. This page collects quotes attributed to Thomas Carlyle on the topic of death, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Speech is human , silence is divine , yet also brutish and dead : therefore we must learn both arts .”
Notebooks (1830). -
“That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.”
Sartor Resartus(1833–1834) | Bk. III, ch. 4. -
“The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.”
Latter-Day Pamphlets(1850) | Latter Day Pamphlet , No. 8. -
“Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity: men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.”
The French Revolution. A History(1837) | Pt. I, Bk. VII, ch. 4. -
“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”
Sir Walter Scott(1838)