T. S. Eliot Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Mediocrity Quotes

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

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Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

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There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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