T. S. Eliot Quotes, Time Quotes, Believe Quotes

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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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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

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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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All time is unreedemable.

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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

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I gotta use words to talk to you.

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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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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