T.S. Eliot Quotes

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Never stop fighting till the fight is done.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.