• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> T. S. Eliot Quotes
  • T. S. Eliot Quotes   2344
  • 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
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , War Quotes , Views Quotes
  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Relationship Quotes , Memories Quotes
  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes
  • Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Hope Quotes , Men Quotes