T.S. Eliot Quotes

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

Survival is your strength not your shame.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

You are the music while the music lasts.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

My name is only an anagram of toilets.