T.S. Eliot Quotes

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Art is the escape from personality.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

For you know only a heap of broken images

One can say everything best over a meal.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Consequences are unpitying.

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

Hurry up, please, its time.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Do I dare Disturb the universe?

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.