When words leave off, music begins. -Thomas Carlyle

 

When words leave off, music begins.


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This quote is just one of 40 total Thomas Carlyle quotes in our collection. Thomas Carlyle is known for saying 'When words leave off, music begins.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle