Thomas Carlyle Quotes

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

The world is full of contradiction.

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.