Unreal friendship may turn to real but real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended.
– T.S. Eliot
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?
– T.S. Eliot
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
– T.S. Eliot
At the beach – time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.
– T.S. Eliot
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
– T.S. Eliot
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
– T.S. Eliot
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.
– T.S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
– T.S. Eliot
Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.
– T.S. Eliot
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
– T.S. Eliot
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
– T.S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
– T.S. Eliot
What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it. Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
– T.S. Eliot
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
– T.S. Eliot
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
– T.S. Eliot
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
– T.S. Eliot
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
– T.S. Eliot
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
– T.S. Eliot
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life’s supreme complications.
– T.S. Eliot
There is another way, if you have the courage.
– T.S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
– T.S.Eliot
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
– T.S. Eliot
Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.
– T.S. Eliot
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
– T.S. Eliot
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
– T.S. Eliot
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
– T.S. Eliot
I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
– T.S. Eliot
In my beginning is my end… In my end is my beginning.
– T.S. Eliot
Survival is your strength not your shame.
– T.S. Eliot
If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.
– T.S. Eliot
The journey, Not the destination matters.
– T.S. Eliot
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
– T.S. Eliot
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.
– T.S. Eliot
Books. Cats. Life is good.
– T.S. Eliot
All time is unredeemable.
– T.S. Eliot
Saints are not made by accident.
– T.S. Eliot
Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome
– T.S. Eliot
In the life of one man, never the same time returns.
– T.S. Eliot
It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
– T. S. Eliot
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
– T.S. Eliot
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
– T.S. Eliot
The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
– T.S. Eliot
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
– T S Eliot
In life there is no time to grieve long.
– T.S. Eliot
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
– T.S. Eliot
In my beginning is my end.
– T. S. Eliot
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
– T.S. Eliot
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
– T.S. Eliot
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
– T.S. Eliot
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
– T.S. Eliot
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
– T.S. Eliot
We learn what poetry is – if we ever learn – by reading it.
– T.S. Eliot