T. S. Eliot Quotes, Life Quotes, Pain Quotes

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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...the still point in a turning world.

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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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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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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I gotta use words to talk to you.

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In the end is my beginning.

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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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.

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