T. S. Eliot Quotes

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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I've been born, and once is enough.

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Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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In the end is my beginning.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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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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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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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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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

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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.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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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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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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