T. S. Eliot Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

• Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophical, Humility, Thinking

  "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927)

• If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Mom, Mother

• Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Past, Desire

  1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Reality, Essence

  "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

• 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

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Views, Survival

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Essence, Shadow

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Knowledge, Desire

• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Love Is, Desire

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.161, Faber & Faber

• life is long between the desire and the spasm.

  T. S. Eliot

  Long, Desire, Life Is

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Worst Moments, Desire, Wish

• It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Agony, Desire

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