Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Music

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Thomas Carlyle

Music, Heart, Looks

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Inspirational, Music, Angel

Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Thomas Carlyle

Music, Song, Essence

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

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

Inspiring, Music, Angel

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

Thomas Carlyle

Music, Song, Speech

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.74