Thomas Carlyle Quotes

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

We are created by being destroyed.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions; and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.

We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.

I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Our show is about starting over.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.